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Legally, they probably can't.
I think you're true for Germany.
The first part of the law is pretty clear and seems to support my idea.
It says that you're not allowed to show or sell the material to children if it doesn't have a label.
The 2nd part is worded more difficult
It says it isn't allowed to sell them outside of stores like corner shops, mail orders and otherwise POS that people don't enter. This might include Steam online services, but it just says "enter" and not "physically enter" which might give leeway that an account with password might technically fulfil that requirement, but then you would be fighting before a judge about the definition of entering a store.
It's complicated as usual and I can see why Steam doesn't want to rock the boat and end up having to require passports for signing up, rather sooner than later.