Wait, wait... dial back, is this verified? The Valve personnel flagging all these VNs and blocking their release are employees integrated from the Campo Santo acquisition?All these japanese banned VNs have to do with Valve's Campo Santo adquisition time ago. ; ).
And usually banning reviewers are the same two.
The better can japanese devs do is release the game on steam with only japanese language or (even only chinese) and then update the game few months later with other languages.
Chinese only vns with schools assets are overlooked by reviewers.
I hate this so much, I still remember when Valve banned one the first VNs to suffer Campo Santo's review "The Key to home" (Ie no kagi) just because artist was MUK_MonsieuR, a well known hentai artist, even this game has none porn CG frame and it's fierce criticism of child prostitution (quite good and harsh/sad plot).
Do you have a link? This is honestly the first I've heard of this..