Blocked in Australia in case any other Australians are wondering why they are being redirected to a search page.

I have to wonder why Subverse is blocked but Hunie Pop is allowed (or at least, Hunie Pop doesn't take you to the search page.)

GOG, you could say the product is not available in your region instead of redirecting to a search page and making it look like your site has an error.

I was originally sort of on the fence as the sex stuff sketched me out a bit...

... but it looks way too funny and fun. I love the Shoot 'Em Up / travel the galaxy / turnbased ground combat / RPG level up crew and ship yadda yadda yadda combo way too much.

Sort of like Mass Effect meets Longest Journey Home with some light turn based RPG mixed in all while upgrading your ship and characters (I'm a sucker for pirate RPGs for much the same reason).

Will hold off until it's out of In Dev as I don't want to burn out on it before it's "finished."


Quick question - there's another VERY similar game to this that I know ISN'T released yet, but the *first* in the series is. It's got that Longest Journey Home vibe and I'm pretty sure the sequel DOES have some groundbased crew action as well, whereas the first game was mostly resource / choose your own adventure.

It *might* have a name that's a symbol - anyone know the game I'm talking about?


Regardless - super excited for the ton of ship RPGs that have been showing up lately and especially those that have ground / crew based action too. Glad LJH and Starpoint Gemini sorta reopened the door to this stuff.

The tale of two distributors and ze Germans might be an EU thing, since CDPR is headquartered there and Valve isn't. Kind of a don't poke the bear thing...I dealt with EU regulatory stuff in a past life and it's got a bit of a reputation where if one bureaucrat in one country gets mad at you about something, by the end of the week all the others have jumped on the bandwagon.

Anyway, this game isn't really my sort of thing but I do rather like their "no bullshit" tagline.

A proper age verification for indexed games or porn in Germany is a closed usergroup… it is the only way to distribute those titles digital here. Basically a store within the store where only adults have access after they verified their age sometimes every time they log in. A normal age verification is not enough for those kind of titles regarding the law.

Basically it goes like this
rated 18 or unrated = normal age verification is enough.
Indexed = no commercials and public selling which means closed usergroups.
Banned (by a court) for the glorification of violence, use of unconstitutional symbols or hate speech = still legal to buy and own. Selling from adult to adult is also fine. As a store located in Germany selling this would get you in trouble but you can find plenty of banned media on ebay.

Also most indexed and banned media is publicly announced so people can create their shopping lists.

And being honest there is not one major digital site like Amazon, Netflix, Steam, Gog and so on which has closed usergroups. I only know porn sites located in Germany use this… because they have to. For retail copies on the other hand there are many specialized store within Germany which sell those kind pf media.

It's not about purity or anything, it's that adding this male gaze does nothing to actually advance things mechanically and we're no longer horny teenagers on DSL or (if you're old enough) dial up networks, having to download 480 x 210 image of someone in what could possibly be considered a state of undress.

I feel the phrasing is more, "Please don't tell me when to be horny". Why bother with the pretense of wrapping a whole game around a pornographic premise when horny teens already did that on Newgrounds in the 2000s? Which at least, only bother with minigames as a pretense?

Space Invaders and a copy of farmers wife monthly would be a lot cheaper, and you you are free to choose which page to look at while you waggle your joystick...

I appreciate GOG bringing this because it had 900+ votes on the wishlist, but I wonder if it wasn't financially worthwhile based on reviews (though it is currently top of the "current bestselling" chart).

There is even a note on this blogpost regarding the age verification: https://blog.de.playstation.com/2021/02/18/so-bezahlt-ihr-eure-einkaeufe-im-playstation-store/. Here it's tied to adding funds to your account, but it applies to direct buys iirc, too. As stated, I didn't used it quite in a while.

EDIT: Typos

If you buy codes fro PS-store at a local store you don't have to verify age usually since they expect said store already has done that (every prepaid code is considered 18+ here).

Still think they personally doctor the bestselling charts.

Which is weird as it is available to buy on steam in NZ (I just had a look to see if it was region locked on steam and no problems adding it to the store cart).

That explains it. I obviously only use prepaid codes for privacy reasons.

ProtonVPN gives you the free option for signing up for email. Only has 3 countries for free, but US is on there so that should get you by. Or maybe that's because I'm in the US. Either way, probably worth a try since it costs nothing.

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For the benefit of other sufferers of this irritating region-blocking...

Used a VPN just to read this games storepage/forums and watch the vid trailers to find:

1) Similar side-boob as something like Dragon Age Origins in pics and trailer. (Oh my!)

1a) There was a bit of areola (Oh Lordy!) which can be viewed in full on its own wiki page. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areola)

2) Some f-bombs and c-bombs in the trailer but moslty implied sexuality.

3) The game has a 'dev history' that people might want to look into before buying.

Really worth censoring <HEAVY SARCASM>

FWIW the Opera browser has a built-in VPN thats good enough for viewing past such censorship.