Dispatch: the controversial sex scene... doesn't exist

Dispatch has proven to be one of the most pleasant video game surprises of 2025: this episodic adventure intelligently tackles an overused theme like superheroes, viewing it from an original perspective and demonstrating that the narrative model popularized by Telltale still works great. If you're not familiar with this game, we recommend checking it out, because in our Dispatch review we unequivocally call it a masterpiece.

Has Dispatch been censored?

In recent days, the term "censorship" has been closely associated with Dispatch: first in relation to the future version for Nintendo consoles, whose content risks becoming more chaste. Censorship was also mentioned for another reason: some users, digging through game data, found references to an alleged sex scene between the protagonist and the character with whom one chooses to pursue a relationship, which, however, does not appear within Dispatch.

This fact led some users to assume that the risqué scene had been removed from Dispatch and to demand its reintroduction. The misunderstanding was clarified by the developers themselves: writer Pierre Shorette and director Nick Herman, interviewed by Eurogamer. The two confirm that the scene was indeed planned in the initial script, but in reality was never produced: there is no storyboard, let alone animations of it.
 
That scene is part of a substantial portion of the script, about 80 pages, that was not used for the game. The reason is the most trivial you can imagine: money. Apparently, on paper, Dispatch had a rather imposing script, which for budget reasons was reduced and condensed. Shorette and Herman assure that all sequences created by the studio are included in the game.