The game’s page on Steam described the game as a “dynamic S.W.A.T. simulator” in which you play as the shooter, or a S.W.A.T. team member trying to neutralize them. The game even lets you play as a civilian, whose role, presumably, would be to survive the nightmare. The trailer depicts a player running down school halls and through classrooms, indiscriminately murdering teachers until a S.W.A.T. team shows up. The glorification of a type of tragedy that continues to strike a very raw nerve had created a major uproar, forcing Valve to take action. The game was promptly removed and Valve released a statement that said “We have removed the developer Revived Games and publisher ACID from Steam. This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall when he was operating as “[bc]Interactive” and “Elusive Team”. Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation. His subsequent return under new business names was a fact that came to light as we investigated the controversy around his upcoming title. We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve. The broader conversation about Steam’s content policies is one that we’ll be addressing soon.”
As of now, the game has been taken down, but Valve recognizes the bigger problem, which is that a game of this kind, according to many angry Steam users, should have never even been allowed to make it to the platform in the first place.