RimWorld pulled from sale on Steam in Australia, as an affront to pubic morality, decency, and propriety

rockpapershotgun.com:

Australia's Classification Board last week slapped an RC rating on RimWorld, an act which seemingly also leaked news that console versions are coming (the devs have since talked about this as "a potential console version"). While the listing is no longer public, Internet archives show it explained:

The computer game is classified RC in accordance with the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, 1. (a) as computer games that "depict, express or otherwise deal with 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 to the extent that they should not be classified."

In the case of RimWorld, I think you can replace every "or" with an "and". The simulation of mind and body is such that you can, if you want, 'despine' prisoners "as a safety precaution" to strip their organs before eventual excecution or create killsquads of densitised child soldiers who murder their parents. You know, RimWorld stuff. If you want. And that's without getting into the wonders/horrors of drugs, which Australian censors so often frown on.

With a classification outright refused, they can't sell it. But this rating did not only apply to the presumed upcoming console versions. Evidently (and unusually) it's retroactive, because Steam no longer sells the game in Australia.

"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. We're not sure why this decision was made in RimWorld's case," the devs said in