Gog allows AO games, there should be no need to censor it.

In following thread you can find link to official faq and links to both live (as in live on server atm) official patch link AND archival copy of it saved eslewhere if you are by any chance interested:
https://www.gog.com/forum/huniepop/huniepop_2_decensor_patch_direct_link_plus_archival_copy

As for "why is it censored", well we can only speculate what GOG enforced, ask developers if you wish as they don't appear to be active on GOG forums so you will get nothing but community speculation in here in case of this question.

Because this game and games like it don't belong on gog.

Seems the game was removed from Steam, I get a 404.

What country geoip are you trying to view it from?
It may be blocked in some countries.

I checked myself just now and the pages for both H1 and H2 are loading fine for me.

US.

Thanks to the gog version, which is easily patched to be uncensored, I can play the game without vpn even though I am not supposed to due to German law. Also, it's weird how many people seem to have a problem with offering lewd games on gog, probably thinking this is the first one, when it is not at all.

Should note, the german law doesn't have a problem with lewd games - quite the opposite, if anything.

The issue is that Valve is refusing to implement a different type of age check. They're now mandating that your age verification at least makes a cursory effort to verify the actual age, instead of just being a "Do you want to see this page or not"-popup. Ready-made solutions exist, they're not difficult to use either after all plenty other pages such as Amazon have been using them for years due to similar limitations on e.g. mail-ordering chemicals or booze.

Just that this part of the law now also applies to age checks on AO games, and Valve is refusing - at least so far - to do something about it.

/shrug

I mean I worked on a website before that allowed people to order cigarettes, and of course we had to have such an age check, too. Like I said, ready-made solution we got from another company, and it was cheap as dirt, too. Probably more corporate laziness than anything else.

Right...
So to be exact the blame is on GOG (for selling censored version) for not implementing "cursory effort" age check so far (let's ignore for a second that GOG afaik has NONE).

Because GOG was too cheap to hang up a curtain of red beads. And because someone was dumb enough to submit it to the ESRB even though none of the console makers/relevant stores would carry it anyways.

Seriously, there are at least 3 open source age verification systems I found with just a lazy ass cursory search, and I can't imagine one would be hard to hand-code.

Such as this.

Or this.

Or something a bit more complex.

You know, something that uses blockchain for something useful.

Or the open identity system in use on websites I can't mention. (This probably isn't it, but this is still a useful tool.)

Yep, exactly.

I mean like you say, they have no age checks at all right now, so there's some reason - last we heard they run the store close to 0 profit - to avoid the work necessary, but really it isn't all that much work, either. I say without knowing their backend, of course. Cannot truly know how easy or difficult it'd be.