I did a google search and saw some stuff about region locking in certain territories from around a year ago and I don't know if I'm understanding the exceptions correctly. I'm from the US and would like to gift someone a game who lives in Argentina and was wondering if there would be region locking restrictions preventing them from playing. From the things I read, it made it seem like the opposite wouldn't work, if I was gifted a game from Argentina, I wouldn't be able to play it, which is fine for my case.

So my question again is, can I, a person from the US, gift a person living in Argentina a steam game, and will they be able to play it without any region locking restrictions? Thanks in advance for the help!

From my own experience a few years ago, you're free to gift games to whichever territory. But, if those games have restrictions on them in the territory where the person is trying to play it, they won't be able to play online, post to leaderboards, etc. because their IP would be banned from that territory.

You're right, gifting games from the US store should work for almost any other region. The problems start happening when you try to gift a game from a "cheap" region such as Russia back to the US, UK, places like that.

If there is a problem gifting or redeeming the game you can always get a refund.

Thank you both for the help!