Check Patreon for Drpinkcake - if you're allowed to back it, you can get the game there as part of your patronage.

same... bought it on release and now the shop site says it's no longer available in my region :(
what tf is going on?

Similar thing happened with House Party - it was available in Germany and then recently got banned from Steam. Good ol' oppressive German gov't. :) Check out patreon though, you might be able to get it there.

these iditons in germany are really great. they allow any violence ... call of duty etc. and a game with some sex is immediately banned. such idiots

Hm, I haven't seen any information from Steam regarding a region ban of my game or any adult games in Germany. The game is still selling in Germany as far as I can see.
I'll look into it.

You might have the same problem as House Party.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/611790/discussions/2/1738887849007064049/

Devs post (on page 2 for the default forum display settings)

"So for those that hadn't surmised, the situation is: an organization (unknown to me at this time) complained, and the game and its DLC have been hidden from the store front in Germany. We are in the process of figuring out more and attempting to compromise by requesting that only the "Explicit Content DLC" be hidden. It's unknown as to how this will play out as we are obliged to comply with Steam's policies as they must comply with regional rules and regulations.

If anything relevant comes up I'll do my best to keep folks updated. It's unfortunate that we all have to go through this <3 "

no matter how it ends here. thanks for the game .... it was fun with Derek. and the music "lonley" inspired me

It also hit 'Man of the House' here in Germany.
But for unkown reasons 'Depraved Awakening' which is also a Adult VN with explicit sexual content is still available...

Originally posted by ...:

It also hit 'Man of the House' here in Germany.
But for unkown reasons 'Depraved Awakening' which is also a Adult VN with explicit sexual content is still available...

Based on the info in the thread I linked to it's because Steam react to complaints, which means the group that's causing the problem have to notice the game and complain about it before they do anything.

"The group that complained is Medienanstalt Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein."

Originally posted by drpinkcake:

Yep, it does look like both my games are banned in Germany for a, to me, unknown reason.
That's very sad, since I know that many germans play my games.

I don't advertise where else to get the game, since I respect Steam as a marketplace.
I'm continuously releasing episodes and the full game on patreon.com/DrPinkCake
I'm looking into adding Being a ♥♥♥ to itch.io as well.
Sadly, it seems like this is the only option for germans to play my games.

Yep, that's what the House Party devs had to do - they use itch.io and a couple other places as well. At least there are options for the German folks.

You could probably also use a VPN and set your store location to US or something and buy steam gift card keys for US. But then you should use a different steam account because you can't always switch your store country back immediately and your payment methods (paypal, credit card, ...) from your current country won't work then.

Originally posted by Ariana ❤:

You could probably also use a VPN and set your store location to US or something and buy steam gift card keys for US. But then you should use a different steam account because you can't always switch your store country back immediately and your payment methods (paypal, credit card, ...) from your current country won't work then.

You can still get banned in Steam for using a VPN to change the country you're buying from, so I wouldn't recommend it.

So, that means all my saves are for nothing. Well i have to thank again my moronic laughable country....
Thank you DrPinkCake for this incredible fun game. I really enjoyed it.

Originally posted by regloh70:

So, that means all my saves are for nothing. Well i have to thank again my moronic laughable country....
Thank you DrPinkCake for this incredible fun game. I really enjoyed it.

No. you can keep the game. the question is only what is in the future with episode 2. you can probably only buy that on the official website