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RIMWORLD HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM STEAM IN AUSTRALIA

Well, shit.

While space colony sim RimWorld has been available digitally in Australia since 2013, it was recently put in front of the Australian Classification Board due to a potential physical console release. The Board gave RimWorld a rating of “Refused Classification”, making it illegal to sell in Australia, due to the way it deals 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”.

At the time we assumed

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