I hope I won't make too much repeat, but has the steam issue not been solved yet? Or will the game never return to steam? Probably been asked a thousand times but can't find a recent answer :x
It’s fine! No, there are no positive updates on this front, so I just keep the Steam situation to myself until it resolves.
I re-run the new version of the game into the Steam shop after confirming that changing the art from the claim will be good enough. They ran some checks for more than a month. I asked them for status and how can I help each week of the said month.
They finally changed the check status to ready just to ban the new version of Yorna without any details. Gee, great client service. I pinged the support, and they redirected me to DMCA team. I described the situation to them and got an astonishing answer.
“Your original game was permanently retired under copyright complaint X. It looks like you then resubmitted the exact same game under AppId Y. The game was banned because it was a resubmission of a game already banned.”
Sadly, I can’t follow the logical acrobatics where “looks like” leads to “the exact same game”. Despite the changed art and my willingness to provide a table of changes, they just closed the dialogue on their end.
At the moment, I’m preparing to bump this issue to their higher-ups and see the reaction. If they won’t react, I’ll take this case to the lawyer.