Even though the space colony simulator has been available digitally in Australia since 2013, the console version has turned everything upside down.

RimWorld was released in 2013 and hasn’t had much of a problem in Australia. Still, it’s been scrutinised by the Australian Classification Board, with a possible console release coming, which could lead to a physical version. In other words, Ludeon Studios’ product could be on the store shelves, and that requires an age rating; otherwise, there can be no such sales.

And the game did not get a rating: the committee rejected the rating of RimWorld (it falls into the RC, Refused Classification category), so it cannot be officially on sale ‘down under’, because the review team did not like how it “matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults.” This explanation is why RimWorld has not even received an adult-only rating.

It just means that the PC version, available without a problem until now, is being kicked off the Australian market! Ludeon Studios, the game’s development team on Steam wrote: “We did not expect this to affect the Steam version because in previous similar cases, as with Disco Elysium for example, an RC rating on a console version did not affect the availability of the PC version on Steam.” Sure, anyone who already has the game in their library can access the product they purchased without a problem, but the Steam site has been made inaccessible from the country. The whole thing becomes incomprehensible when you can still buy games directly from the RimWorld website.

Source: PCGamer