I don't know if this is already have been discussed before, i tried to find other discussion about this but i can't find an answer to my question.

So the story behind this is i want to give a birthday present to my friend. At first, i try to send him games via steam store but since our steam account region is different it doesn't work. So my other alternative is to buy games on humble store.

My question is how to check if the humble store will give region restricted games or not?
for example if i want to buy him this

I'm Indonesian so if it's region restricted i think it will be SEA/ASIA, my friend is from US so i think it must be a global row code if i want to send it to him.

I know i could just send him digital steam wallet gift card but that gamble addict sh*t will just spend them on opening csgo cases. So game gift it is :)
If anyone have any clue or answer about this it will be much appreciated, thanks~

3 years ago

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When I have bought gifts for friends, at some point Humble asks me if it is for me or for a gift and has always generated a link without asking anything else. Based on that I think the game will have no regional restriction.

I hope your friend doesn't trade your gift, Humble might close your account.

3 years ago
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Ahh i see.

I've also read some thread that says humble banned some account who resell keys from there. I hope i'm safe since i only gift this to him, i'll told him to redeem it right away.

Thanks for your reply :)

3 years ago
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Slime Rancher doesn't have region restrictions so you can safely buy it.

3 years ago
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Great :)

May i ask you how to see if other game also doesn't have region restriction? Is there a notice on the humble store page if a game is region restricted? Because so far when i browse the store there i have not seen anything mentioning about a region restriction yet.

3 years ago
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You can check SteamDB for that.

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I know i could just send him digital steam wallet gift card but that gamble addict sh*t will just spend them on opening csgo cases.

Seems to me like you're wasting your money either way.

3 years ago
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I KNOW :x
He's still a good friend tho

3 years ago
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Looks at posts here. They are pretty detailed and shows if there is a region restriction.

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Most post here only mention about humble bundle and not humble store games tho. :(

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Oh i didn't realize you are not talking about bundle. My bad

3 years ago
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Depends on the game. You can generally look it up at steamdb packages if there is a region-locked version for your country or not. If not, it is generally considered global key.

https://steamdb.info/app/433340/subs/

Also as a fellow SEA gamer (I am from PH), I can guarantee it isn't region locked specifically because I once bought the same game for a US friend myself. Humble is shit in not telling you if a game is region locked or not until after the fact. I had to refund a game once due to this which is silly since I have to pay the same price as US folks anyway.... but here we are.

There are other official stores out there that actually do tell you on the store page itself if a key is region restricted or not like Fanatical and Greenmangaming if you are looking for other options in the future.

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SEA gamer unite :)

Thanks for the explanation, i'll look into it.

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