{"id":1407279,"date":"2025-11-27T15:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9yKAidb6iJ52Y3HP3nFk7f"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:38:54","slug":"schedule-1-creator-had-a-backup-plan-if-steam-rejected-it-pack-up-the-product-don-a-farmers-hat-and-pivot-it-to-be-a-farming-game-like-stardew-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/schedule-1-creator-had-a-backup-plan-if-steam-rejected-it-pack-up-the-product-don-a-farmers-hat-and-pivot-it-to-be-a-farming-game-like-stardew-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule 1 creator had a backup plan if Steam rejected it\u2014pack up the product, don a farmer&#8217;s hat, and &#8216;pivot it to be a farming game&#8217; like Stardew Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Schedule 1 was one of 2025&#8217;s freshly-cooked batches of surprise hits. Y&#8217;know, the kind that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/schedule-1-is-the-kind-of-instant-steam-hit-that-was-only-ever-going-to-come-from-a-complete-rando\/\">comes out of basically nowhere<\/a> and lands square in the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/forget-repo-monster-hunter-wilds-and-assassins-creed-shadows-steams-current-global-top-seller-is-an-early-access-game-about-managing-a-drug-empire\/\">top sellers list<\/a>\u2014and while it was a year marked with these success stories, it was <em>also <\/em>the year that saw Steam starting to put the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/platforms\/steam-introduces-new-rule-prohibiting-certain-kinds-of-adult-content-that-might-make-visa-or-mastercard-unhappy-financial-deplatforming-in-action\/\">kibosh on adult-themed games<\/a>. Which, one might worry, could eventually include drugs.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, its creator Tyler tells our friends over at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/simulation\/creator-of-drug-lord-hit-schedule-1-had-a-backup-plan-so-that-if-steam-wouldnt-take-it-for-whatever-reason-i-could-just-pivot-it-to-be-a-farming-game-and-strip-all-the-drug-stuff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">GamesRadar<\/a> that this was enough of a concern to develop a backup plan in case Steam didn&#8217;t accept the game to its platform: &#8220;Early during development, I had a plan where, if Steam wouldn&#8217;t take it for whatever reason, I could just pivot it to be a farming game. Just strip all the drug stuff out, make it a farming game\u2014but thankfully, it was all right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say Tyler&#8217;s had it easy when it comes to international censorship or ratings issues. Easy enough to be a bestseller, sure, but not entirely immune to oversight: &#8220;A couple of countries don&#8217;t love it; that&#8217;s fine. Australia was one of them for a little while. We were effectively banned in Australia, which kind of sucked, but we got it there in the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t entirely surprising, given the Australian Classification Board is\u2026 let&#8217;s call it thorough, historically refusing classification to games like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dayz-has-been-refused-classification-in-australia\/\">DayZ<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/rimworld-is-officially-banned-in-australia-but-it-probably-wont-affect-pc\/\">RimWorld<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/australian-ban-of-disco-elysium-the-final-cut-overturned\/\">Disco Elysium<\/a>, and most recently <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/horror\/silent-hill-f-is-not-messing-around-now-its-been-banned-in-australia\/\">Silent Hill f<\/a>\u2014albeit often temporarily while the board puts those games under a microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule 1 not being unleashed on the land down under doesn&#8217;t seem to&#8217;ve stopped its roll, though\u2014the game has a proud all-time peak of 459,000 players on Steam, and even months away from its initial chart-busting release, it&#8217;s still got a very healthy 24-hour peak of over 13,500 players.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in an alternate universe, we all might be talking about a farming sim where you cook vegetables on suspiciously-sized, meth-appropriate baking trays. Passing out parsnips in dark alleys. Delegating <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/schedule-1-is-my-favourite-co-op-game-of-the-year-because-it-lets-me-bully-my-friends-into-doing-the-hard-parts-for-me\/\">responsibilities to fellow farmhands<\/a>, rather than friends we&#8217;ve roped into our enterprises. And doing so in Australia, which would have no cause to turn up its nose at an otherwise successful game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"6726adf8-ece6-4bfc-9430-28f502777e33\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension48=\"Steam sale dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:550px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"dmLfcTEceHMYUpsciYxiDT\" name=\"steam rpgs\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/schedule-1-creator-had-a-backup-plan-if-steam-rejected-it-pack-up-the-product-don-a-farmers-hat-and-pivot-it-to-be-a-farming-game-like-stardew-valley.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/steam-sale-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"6726adf8-ece6-4bfc-9430-28f502777e33\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension48=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Steam sale dates<\/strong><\/a>: When&#8217;s the next event?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/epic-games-store-free-games-list\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Epic Store free games<\/strong><\/a>: What&#8217;s free right now?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: The best freebies you can grab<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-free-games-on-steam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free Steam games<\/strong><\/a>: No purchase necessary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/schedule-1-creator-had-a-backup-plan-if-steam-rejected-it-pack-up-the-product-don-a-farmers-hat-and-pivot-it-to-be-a-farming-game-like-stardew-valley\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule 1 was one of 2025&#8217;s freshly-cooked batches of surprise hits. Y&#8217;know, the kind that comes out of basically nowhere and lands square in the top sellers list\u2014and while it was a year marked with these success stories, it was also the year that saw Steam starting to put the kibosh on adult-themed games. Which, one might worry, could eventually include drugs. As a matter of fact, its creator Tyler tells our friends over at GamesRadar that this was enough of a concern to develop a backup plan in case Steam didn&#8217;t accept the game to its platform: &#8220;Early during development, I had a plan where, if Steam wouldn&#8217;t take it for whatever reason, I could just pivot it to be a farming game. 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