The Games That Australians Can No Longer Buy On Steam

When Steam announced support for the Australian dollar, it came with the same pre-existing condition as every other currency: if developers didn’t set a region specific price for that currency, their games couldn’t be sold in those regions.

Front-facing support for the AUD went live on Steam this morning. Naturally, quite a few developers forgot.

The first game that immediately became noticeable was Warhammer: Vermintide 2. It’s a featured deal on the Steam front page, and until AUD support was enabled Aussies could purchase the game for $US14.99.

However, once support for the AUD ticked over, something crucial was missing: the ability to buy the game.

Fatshark weren’t the only developers to forget. At the time of writing, a lot of prominent indies and larger publishers missed the memo completely: Undertale, Return of the Obra Dinn, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Night in the Woods, Tabletop Simulator, Dream Daddy, Age of Empires 2: HD, Don’t Starve Together, Celeste, Factorio and every Konami game was unavailable for sale.

Microsoft Studios apparently forgot, too. A price was set for Sunset Overdrive, but a ton of Microsoft-published games on Steam are unavailable, including Ori and the Blind Forest, Fable Anniversary, Quantum Break, and Rise of Nations.

Here’s Ori and the Blind Forest, unavailable for sale.

Here’s the extra prompt that’s shown to those in the US; you can view it for yourself through this link.

Owlcat Games, the maker of Pathfinder: Kingmaker, remembered to set a local price for their season pass – but not the game itself. So you can buy future content, just not the game that comes with it.

Here’s Hellblade as shown to audiences logging in from the United States, and what Australians will see (complete with the Enhanced Steam browser plug-in, which is fantastic):

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Gunpoint, Super Hexagon, The Wolf Among Us, Sam & Max, and a good chunk of titles from German publisher Daedlic Entertainment were also affected.

EatPrayLoot also noted on Twitter that Runic Games, makers of the Torchlight series and Hob, also forgot:

We’ll keep you posted with any other major snafus. Let us know if you see any pearlers in the comments!

Adam Wells contributed to this report.


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