恐怖游戏《VILE: Exhumed》免费下载

原订在 2025 年 7 月 22 日在 Steam 上架的恐怖游戏《VILE: Exhumed》，在未说明原因的情况下遭平台下架。游戏开发者 Cara Cadaver 拒绝修改游戏内容，并透过游戏发行商 Dread XP 发布免费版本。

关于开发者声明

Developer Statement:
VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors of parasocial obsession and misogyny. There are references to sexual assault and violence against women, as well as depictions of gore – this was never a secret. This was the point.
It was intended to be released for sale on July 22, 2025 on Steam – the largest video game storefront in the world.
Instead, it was removed from Steam and banned for sale.
VILE: Exhumed was not banned for its use of gore, or its intense themes – themes that are sensitive but many players related to – it was wrongfully banned for “sexual content with depictions of real people.”
The game covers topics of assault, abuse, and entitlement, and uses a combination of FMV and practical effects to create images as horrifying as the themes. This was never a secret. There are a lot of intense visuals in VILE: Exhumed, but there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography whatsoever – which is one of the justifications bad actors are using right now to censor games.
What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone.
This censorship of my work is a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom, and it will not stop with false accusations of sexual content.
They will come for anything that speaks more loudly than they do.
By giving the game away, for free, to whoever wants to play it, I am doing the same thing I set out to do when I started working on VILE: Exhumed, a game about sexual assault, male entitlement, and misogyny. Taking back my agency.
No one is allowed to dictate what kind of horror is acceptable, or what stories are allowed to be told.
VILE: Exhumed is now available to download for free as shareware under a CC BY-NC-ND license through a few different methods on this page. This felt like the best option to make the game available to as many people as possible. Trying to release on a different storefront would only open us up to the same problem we ran into with Steam.
Below, you will also find links to financially support the game. Since VILE: Exhumed was intended to be my first commercially released game, we wanted to provide a way for people to financially support it as well. DreadXP will be donating all of their portion of the profits, and I will be donating a portion of mine, totaling in 50% of the profits from the game being donated to Red Door Family Shelter, a Toronto based charity that focuses on helping families, refugees, and women who are escaping violence.
Every person at DreadXP has worked so hard to support me, and support VILE: Exhumed, and I want to take this opportunity to thank them. They encouraged my artistic freedom from the very start and through all the stress and heartbreak of my game being banned, they stood beside me – promising me they would do everything they could to get VILE: Exhumed out and into the world – somehow. The decision to distribute the game for free, to make sure as many people could play it as possible, was a collaborative effort that not only had DreadXP’s support, but their enthusiastic encouragement.
I also want to say thank you to anyone who has supported me, whether you played the original version of VILE on itch.io, or maybe even the games I worked on previously to this, followed me on social media and got curious about the game, or if you just heard about me moments before arriving at this website.
You are why I create things.
The one thing that hasn’t changed during all of the bullshit is my one piece of advice.
Please, now more than ever, make the weird thing. Throw up your yarn and create with it.
Thank you.
– Cara Cadaver

关于开发者声明（翻译）

开发者声明：
《VILE: Exhumed》是一款关于在旧电脑中搜寻、揭开黑暗秘密以及体验准社会痴迷和厌女症恐怖的游戏。游戏中涉及性侵犯和针对女性的暴力，以及血腥描写——这从来都不是秘密。这就是重点。
它原定于2025年7月22日在全球最大的电子游戏商店Steam上发售。
然而，它却被从Steam下架并被禁售。
《VILE: Exhumed》并非因其使用血腥场面或其激烈的主题而被禁——这些主题虽然敏感，但许多玩家对此感同身受——而是因“包含真人描绘的性内容”而被错误地禁售。
该游戏涵盖了攻击、虐待和权利等主题，并结合了全动态影像（FMV）和实景特效，创造出与主题一样令人毛骨悚然的画面。这从来都不是秘密。《VILE: Exhumed》中有很多激烈的视觉效果，但其中没有未经审查的裸露画面，没有性行为描写，也没有任何色情内容——这正是一些不良行为者目前用来审查游戏的借口之一。
这实际上导致女性、其他边缘艺术家，以及最终所有人，都失去了权力和叙事能力。
对我作品的审查是对创作表达和艺术自由的直接攻击，而且这种攻击不会止步于对性内容的虚假指控。
他们会攻击任何比他们更有影响力的东西。
通过免费向任何想玩的人提供游戏，我正在做着与我开始开发《VILE: Exhumed》时所计划的相同的事情，这是一款关于性侵犯、男性权利和厌女症的游戏。夺回我的自主权。
没有人可以规定什么样的恐怖是可以接受的，或者什么样的故事可以被讲述。
《VILE: Exhumed》现已开放下载，并作为共享软件在 CC BY-NC-ND 许可下免费下载，可通过本页面提供的几种不同方式下载。这似乎是让尽可能多的人都能玩到这款游戏的最佳选择。尝试在其他商店发布只会让我们面临与 Steam 平台相同的问题。
下方还有游戏资金支持的链接。由于《VILE: Exhumed》是我首款商业发行的游戏，我们希望为大家提供资金支持。DreadXP 将捐出他们所有的利润份额，我将捐出我的一部分利润，总计 50% 的游戏利润将捐赠给红门家庭庇护所 (Red Door Family Shelter)，这是一家位于多伦多的慈善机构，致力于帮助逃离暴力的家庭、难民和妇女。
DreadXP 的每一位员工都竭尽全力支持我，也支持《VILE: Exhumed》，我想借此机会向他们表示感谢。他们从一开始就鼓励我的艺术自由，在我的游戏被禁的所有压力和心碎中，他们一直陪伴着我——承诺会尽一切努力让《VILE: Exhumed》以某种方式面世。免费发行游戏的决定，是为了确保尽可能多的人能够玩到它，这背后是大家共同努力的结果，不仅得到了DreadXP的支持，也得到了他们热情的鼓励。
我也想感谢所有支持过我的人，无论你是在itch.io上玩过《VILE》的原版，还是之前我参与开发的游戏，无论你是在社交媒体上关注我并对这款游戏感到好奇，还是在访问这个网站之前才听说过我。
你们是我创作的动力。
在所有这些糟糕的经历中，唯一不变的是我的一条建议。
请比以往任何时候都更努力地创作一些奇特的东西。抛出你的奇思妙想，用它去创造。
谢谢。
——卡拉·卡达弗