At the time of typing this, the goal was dropped to $50k USD (from $56k), extended the campaign to January 30th, and is 99% funded.
I know, reddit bad, but the creator is active in the r/SteamDeck discord server if anyone has questions.
Edit/update: project is now fully funded!!!
The reason it isn’t available in the EU, yet, is that it isn’t CE certified.
I know. But why?
The creator mentioned why on the discord mentioned in the post above. The jist of the reasoning is cost.
But I don’t get it. How many steam decks have been sold in Europe? How can that not be a market for them? Getting the CE label later may work out, but don’t they need the money now?