Sony have been making a lot of mistakes over the past couple of years, including things like mistakenly thinking they could release 12 live service games by 2026, but the more immediately annoying one is its whole PSN thing. I probably don’t need to remind you of that whole Helldivers 2 fiasco, where they tried to make logging into a PSN a requirement for those on PC and later scrapped this because it went down horrendously. However, there has been one other snag that came with all this PSN nonsense: region locking.
Despite being able to play Helldivers 2 without a PSN account, it was still unavailable in almost 180 countries, all of which you can’t make a PSN account in (it’s still possible to play the game with an account connected, which will likely have factored into the reasoning behind region locking the game). This has applied to Sony’s other PC ports of their PlayStation published games, except now, as shared by deals wizard Wario64, it seems a handful of them are now (mostly) region lock free.
Sony appears to be removing regional restrictions on their Steam/PC games
God of War Ragnarok steamdb.info/sub/833972/h…
The Last of Us Part II Remastered steamdb.info/sub/1219787/…
Spider-Man 2 steamdb.info/sub/1219797/…
Helldivers 2 steamdb.info/sub/137730/h…
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— Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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There are four total, including the aforementioned Helldivers 2, as well as God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, and Spider-Man 2. Worth keeping in mind that these are all games that had their PSN requirements lifted earlier this year. From what I can tell there haven’t been any changes made to other PlayStation games based on their logs on SteamDB, but I’m also not entirely sure which games were and weren’t region locked, so your mileage may vary with their wider portfolio.
It’s a good move forward at least! Certainly seems like PlayStation are just shooting themselves in the foot by limiting where their games can actually be bought. Now the big question is whether or not their next big game (that isn’t Marathon) on PC will have a PSN requirement at all.