It's a great day today, as Valve have been busy this week finally delivering justice. Over the last two days, over 290 asset flips and minimum effort GameMaker Studio/Construct 2 template games have been banned from Steam. The games belonged to the following "group" of Russian "developers".

• Reforged Group
  
• For Kids
  
• HotFoodGames
  
• Bullid Games
  
• Garage Games
  
• Vyacheslav Shilikhin
  
• Mikhail Melnikov
  
• SosiskaGames
  
• Rex Junior
  
• Luci Entertainment
  
• IndieLip
  
• Seaborgium Entertainment
  
• Sweety Boy
  
• galesoozka
  
• Gales Corp.
  
• ImperiumGame
  
• OnBlind
  
• Interactive Pixel Entmt.
  
• Fedor Iko
  
• Repa Games
  
• TSS Studio

Many of the games are flips of exactly the same game template assets and share similar art and so on. Given Valve have chosen to ban these developers all at the same time, we can only conclude our suspicions have been correct and these are all either the same person or a small number of bad actors who've been acting together to pollute Steam for profit.

Certainly, we know that Reforged Group/Gales Corp/HotFoodGames/ImperiumGame/Garage Games are all one and the same as we've seen games move between those Steam developer accounts. It's interesting to see how far the rot spread before Valve finally ended it.

Here's to a much nicer, cleaner Steam Store for everyone!