Hey peeps. This game was recommended to me and I wanted to wishlist it on Steam, however, it is not available in my region. My region is Germany, and this is a common problem for some indie games since Germany has very strict age rating laws. IF your game doesn't have an officially supported age rating like USK or the like, it will not even be displayed to customers from Germany. Maybe it's something else, but because I had indie devs from other countries telling me they were unanaware of this fact before, I thought I just let you know.
:) I would love to wishlist and buy the game on Steam, so I hope it will be possible some day.
Oh trust me, we know. We appreciate the helpful sentiment, this monkey has just been on our collective back for a while! Steam decided that our game contains "frequent sexual content", which we think is very silly. But when we disputed the rating Steam disagreed with us, and now German and Chinese players have to access the game elsewhere, like here.
If you're looking to buy OBSCURA, buying it here on itch.io will also grant you access to a Steam key, and we have seen confirmation from our German players that Steam keys can be redeemed for the game without issue. All the major Steam functionality is the same regardless of whether you buy it there or here, and the game's price in Euros on Steam is almost exactly the same as the USD price here on itch (at least at time of writing). So the only major difference in experience is which platform you'll be paying.
If you're looking to wishlist the game to be notified of a sale, we recommend following us on a social platform (we have Twitter, Bluesky, and Tumblr) since we announce all the sale events we take part in. It's not ideal (I personally really like Steam's wishlist functionality and wish it was easier to get an Itch equivalent), but it'll get you the information.
Thanks for the reply! I have added the game to a watchlist, here, and am following you on bsky now. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you don't know your stuff. It was more a tmyk-kind of thing bc I don't expect the world to always be informed about German shenanigans. I wish my financial situation was better atm, but indeed, I am currently looking for discounted prizes bc my budget is very tight. If that changes, I will buy undiscounted. Keep on doing good stuff, and I am looking forward to playing the game!
No worries, we'd much rather people want to keep us informed of things than not. And while I'm not allowed to talk about sales specifics in advance (Steam's rules again), I can say that we intend to take part in all the regular events that we qualify for. Sales here on itch and over on Steam have the same discount and duration, so there shouldn't be any difficulty picking up the title on a little discount sooner or later. And thanks for wanting to get the game! We hope you enjoy it, when you get the chance to play❤️