I think recent german law required platforms like steam to require real photo IDs to be able to view and purchase mature rated games and/or require every game to have a german rating to be able to viewed
so valve had to restrict every game that didn't get a specific GERMAN age rating so they have to manually review games until then.

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I think recent german law required platforms like steam to require real photo IDs to be able to view and purchase mature rated games and/or require every game to have a german rating to be able to viewed
so valve had to restrict every game that didn't get a specific GERMAN age rating so they have to manually review games until then.

But this would not make sense in my opinion as I have already said, Lost Planet 2 already has that rating in germany and most certainly had it listed on the store page. So the mature rated stuff should not apply here.
And afaik Steams own rating system which got made mandatory for all new games in Januaryof this year I believe is also accepted as that rating. That is like a series of questions to be filled to rate the game that the developer or Publisher fills out.
If that wasnt possible then steam would rather opt to kick or isolate germany entirely from the userbase than to enforce german law on their plattform imo, just doesnt make sense buisnesswise for Steam to do that.

So I am quite perplexed as to why the game get set to restricted in germany when there shouldnt be anything hindering them to sell it in germany, atleast from what I can gleam of the situation.

I bump this with asking you to consider changing the title and maybe put some short message in your original post adressing the devs, if they ever read this, so they see its importance.

Something like "@devs please act / rate the game...", whatever. Thanks :-)

In some cases Steam doesn't accept USK only and at the same time Steam's own rating, if available, might be too old and the questionnaire needs to be resubmitted.
It's weird and buggy, but this is what I picked up.