Jorts and Jam Donuts Now Cover Dispatch's Nudity

A filled doughnut oozing jam. A pair of denim hot pants. The game's own logo. These are now official censorship options in Dispatch, the superhero workplace comedy that launched on Switch earlier this year with every bit of nudity locked behind black bars and no way to turn them off.

AdHoc Studio released the free HR Violations update yesterday for Switch, Switch 2, PS5, and PC via Steam. On Nintendo's platforms, the patch adds a new "Partial Coverage" default that frees up breasts, butts, and middle fingers while keeping full genital nudity and explicit audio censored. Players in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand can toggle between Partial and Full Coverage, while Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, and Southeast Asia remain locked to Full Coverage. On PS5 and Steam, everything stays uncensored by default, though the new filter options are available there too if you want them.

The best part of the update is how AdHoc handles the stuff Nintendo still won't allow. For any scene where genitals would otherwise be visible, players pick from three censorship "styles": a pixelated Mosaic, the classic Blackout bar, or Chaotic mode, which slaps random objects over the offending anatomy. Jorts, jam donuts, whatever's lying around. I respect a studio that turns a platform holder's restrictions into a bit. It doesn't fix the underlying problem, but it makes the compromise feel like part of the game's personality rather than a corporate concession.

AdHoc's community post acknowledged that the original Switch launch, which shipped a single heavily censored build across all regions, left players feeling misled. "The problem was we didn't make it clear enough, before you spent your money, that the version you were buying was materially different," the studio wrote. "And for that we're truly sorry." The post explained that late-stage Nintendo requirements forced the team into a difficult decision under time pressure, and that Dispatch's commercial success, over one million copies sold in its first ten days, gave them the resources to go back and build the update.

Xbox players will get access to the same censorship settings when Dispatch arrives on that platform later this summer. Japan's Switch version remains the most restricted: Full Coverage only, Blackout style only, no player choice.