



In August 2018, Sekai Project laid off some or all of their permanent staff in their Los Angeles office. In June 2018, Sekai Project provided a censored version of the adult game Maitetsu to Fakku to distribute, contrary to what Sekai Project had promised them and their customers. As is usual for the Humble Bundle site, users were also able to donate a portion of their payment to the charity of their choice. In 2017, the company partnered with Humble Bundle, an online marketplace where games are sold based on what other users paid for them. For titles like The Fruit of Grisaia, an all ages version is available on Steam, while the adult version is sold directly through the Denpasoft website. Since Steam does not typically allow adult games to be sold on their platform, Sekai Project releases their adult titles through their partner company Denpasoft. In July 2015, Sekai Project announced that they would be localizing manga in addition to video games, starting with Gate. The campaign exceeded its goal of US$140,000 and ended up raising over US$500,000. In November 2014, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund an English release of the visual novel Clannad. Sekai Project has used the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund many of their projects.

Sekai Project began publishing games on Steam in 2014 their first title was World End Economica episode.01, released in June. They later partnered with publisher JAST USA, turning their fan translation into the official English version of the game. Sekai Project originated in 2007 as a fan translation group translating the visual novel School Days.
