>>717919771
>>717921748
As someone who's worked for a games platform before: on our platform, if there was no known age rating for a game, the platform treated it as 18+ by default. This resulted in some ridiculous situations where clearly family-friendly games were inaccessible to child accounts, but also made sure violent indie stuff wasn't accessible to those accounts. We had internal discussions on whether we could manually make exceptions for family friendly games, but potential legal risks prevented such a solution from ever materializing. Something similar is probably happening here.

>>717923532
It isn't, actually. The Switch, PS5 and Xbox versions are rated PEGI 3, but the PC version doesn't seem to have a PEGI rating (at least on the PEGI site). Every version may have differences so you need to have a rating for that exact version. Notice how Steam doesn't list a PEGI rating for the game, unlike e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/71250/Sonic_Adventure_DX/.

Not that any of this makes it more acceptable. But at least this aspect isn't some part of the grand conspiracy, just the logical outcome of stupid laws being applied.