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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Nothing new; they just renamed "unavailable in Germany" to "sexual content".
In Europe it's less controversial to display nudity. Nudity and sex are 2 different things. However violence, blood and gore is generally hidden on screen.
Steam in Germany is a bit of a special case. Basically, they got criticized for years for offering adult-only games to minors on account of not having any kind of legally accepted age check.
Steam finally reacted to this but not by implementing PostIdent or some other age verification scheme. No, they just blocked German users from even seeing the store pages of anything that doesn't have an age rating in Germany. That mostly means porn games.
Hence my comment that "sexual content" and "unavailable in Germany" are pretty much the same thing as far as Steam is concerned.