Nighthawks: Steam classification and release on 22 September 2026

• Kotaku reported on 15 September 2026 that Steam appeared to treat the game as adults-only, hurting its discoverability on the platform.
• Dave Gilbert said Wadjet Eye Games was working on a fix for the classification issue.

What happened

Kotaku reported on 15 September 2026 that Nighthawks, the vampire RPG from Wadjet Eye Games, ran into a Steam classification issue shortly before release. According to that report, Steam was treating the game as adults-only, which affected how visible it was in search results. The same piece also said the title had disappeared in some countries, although the material provided here does not make clear whether that was a true delisting or another kind of Steam restriction.

Dave Gilbert said in that Kotaku article that Wadjet Eye Games was working to resolve the issue with Steam. That confirms the studio was actively responding, but not that Steam had already made a final correction at the time of publication. The available sources also do not say which specific part of the game may have triggered the classification.

The planned release date mentioned in the sources is 22 September 2026. Wadjet Eye Games announced that date on 2 September 2026, and RPG Site later also confirmed a PC release via Steam and GOG on that day. There is no confirmation in the provided material that the schedule changed after the Steam issue, so this remains the latest release date cited in these sources.

Kotaku also placed the situation in the broader context of earlier Steam issues affecting indie games. Future? No Thanks! and Horses were mentioned as comparisons. That makes clear this was not just a one-off store listing problem, but a familiar kind of issue where classification and discoverability on Steam can directly affect a game's visibility.

Background

Nighthawks is a narrative vampire RPG from Wadjet Eye Games. The game was funded via Kickstarter in 2018 and, according to the provided sources, had long been planned for a PC release on Steam and GOG. On 2 September 2026, the studio explicitly said the game would launch on 22 September 2026, locking in the release shortly before the Kotaku report.

The available descriptions present Nighthawks as a story-driven vampire game in which the player takes on a modern monster role. RPG Site reported that the game would arrive on 22 September 2026 for Windows, macOS, and Linux via Steam and GOG. The provided context also says the original target had once been 2021, showing the project had a longer development cycle than the final release date might suggest.

The Steam issue, according to Kotaku, was about how the game was being handled inside the store environment. The core problem was discoverability: if a title is treated as adults-only, that can affect search results and regional availability. The provided sources do not confirm which internal Steam labels were used, and they also do not confirm whether there was a formal delisting in all affected regions.

Kotaku compared the situation with earlier cases such as Future? No Thanks! and Horses. Those references matter because they show Nighthawks was not the first indie game to run into a Steam classification problem. At the same time, the exact cause of the Nighthawks flag remains unclear in the provided material, as does whether the issue was fully resolved before 22 September 2026.