The rejection was that the reader was forced to be a murderer, not that there were child murders off-screen.
Edit:
Just to be clear – I am not sure I would agree with this being enough to block publication. I don’t have the full set of facts to make that call, so I will not.
I also have been on the receiving end of publishers cancelling a game I worked on, so I understand everything on a level that others may not.
I don’t think:
Nor do I believe that the publication process for Hosted Games is capricious, whimsical or unfairly applied.
It might be:
I feel most authors will be able to pivot and adjust to reach the goal of publication.
An example that comes to mind is how CC_Hill pivoted from one title to another.
I really think if we as a community help an author that wants to pivot and get published, that they would succeed even if they need to adjust to achieve publication.