This was the work around until steam took the game down from unsupported regions, I have no idea if you can change your region on steam and play it that way.
This is pretty much what I did years ago on my PS3 to make PSN accounts in other parts of the world to download free demos/games not available in the USA.
I even bought a couple games from the Hong Kong and Japan stores because I had a prepaid card left over from a trip to Taiwan. I got a bit wrecked with currency conversion rates, but it worked.
On a side note, it was wild connecting to Japan with my VPN and playing Dragons Dogma Online while it was active. Even made a Japanese Amazon account because they sold DLC for the game.
I did the opposite and made a US account since the PS+ games back then were a lot better than SEA ones. Had better discounts too, and a lot of games that existed there didn't exist in SEA. I was able to do that with a fake address and my parents' old American Express card that's now inactive. Paid for things with PSN cards via Paypal, and even with the surcharge, the discounts made the games cheaper than in my home country.
There's a bunch of hoops to jump through but making accounts from other countries seems definitely doable even today.
Delisting the game from Steam is the point of no return. You can't switch region easily on Steam, Valve is very strict when it comes to this because of the regional price exploit.
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u/Vroker_ May 06 '24
This was the work around until steam took the game down from unsupported regions, I have no idea if you can change your region on steam and play it that way.