{"id":1431101,"date":"2025-12-18T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:05:41","slug":"following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"Following controversial bans from Steam and Epic, Santa Ragione&#8217;s Horses has sold 18k copies and repaid debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Santa Ragione&#8217;s Horses was the subject of multiple headlines ahead of its release as Steam &#8211; one of if not the biggest digital PC storefronts &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/saturnalia-studios-deeply-unsettling-horror-horses-has-a-release-date-but-theres-a-significant-hitch-if-you-were-hoping-to-play-it-on-steam\">refused to distribute the game<\/a>. Then, just before its release, it was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/horses-gets-eleventh-hour-ban-from-epic-games-store\">banned from the Epic storefront<\/a>. This all put the studio into jeopardy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/its-extremely-frustrating-and-also-fcked-up-one-of-the-worlds-best-indie-studios-is-facing-shock-closure-following-confounding-steam-ban\">with founder Pietro Righi Riva telling Eurogamer it could face closure if Horses didn&#8217;t sell well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/following-controversial-bans-from-steam-and-epic-santa-ragiones-horses-has-sold-18k-copies-and-repaid-debts\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Ragione&#8217;s Horses was the subject of multiple headlines ahead of its release as Steam &#8211; one of if not the biggest digital PC storefronts &#8211; refused to distribute the game. Then, just before its release, it was also banned from the Epic storefront. This all put the studio into jeopardy, with founder Pietro Righi Riva telling Eurogamer it could face closure if Horses didn&#8217;t sell well. 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