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Steam Germany Has Removed 27 Games From its Store

Kiss these 27 games goodbye from Steam Germany... for now.
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Damian Skinner
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Published: Jun 1, 2016 07:02 am

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Retro German gamers look out because Valve recently took down 27 games from Steam Germany as noted by NeoGAF user Henrar. Here’s the full list from a recent post by Steam Germany Steam Community page:

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Valve noted that this list isn’t complete, meaning that there’s a chance that more games have also been removed. While the post itself doesn’t mention why these games have been banned, it notes that these games have also been banned on other German store sites such as Gamesplanet because they’re on an index of “Which titles are (mostly) on the index of media harmful to young persons have been removed from the German store.”

While these games have been removed from Steam, NeoGAF users such as Hektor have noted that anybody who owns these games already can still play them.

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Damian Skinner
An Irish liberal arts student with way too much time on his hands who when not obsessing about Monster Hunter, RPGs or some random account he recently found on YouTube he can be found writing for Twinfinite.