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The recent controversial Taiwanese horror game, Devotion, seems to have disappeared from Steam. Searching for the game only reveals the soundtrack. This is the link to the game's store page which doesn't exist anymore. Devotion is a first-person atmospheric horror game depicting the life of a family shadowed by religious belief. Explore as a 1980s Taiwan apartment-complex lost in time gradually shift into a hellish nightmare. Delve into the vows each member of the family has made, and witness their devotion.

Devotion is a singleplayerfirst-personadventure and puzzle game.

It was released as Huan Yuan Devotion (Simplified Chinese: 还愿 Devotion, Traditional Chinese: 還願 Devotion, Japanese: 還願 Devotion) in Asia on February 19, 2019. Shortly after release, a placeholder asset with unintended political connotations left in the release version of the game led to heavy criticism from Chinese audiences before it was delisted from Steam China on February 23, 2019.^[2] Red Candle Games issued an official apology for their 'awfully unprofessional mistake' and delisted the game internationally on February 25, 2019 citing technical issues.^[3]
Red Candle Games offered a Taiwan-exclusive physical Limited Edition of Devotion in June 2020^[4] and organized a worldwide digital release via GOG.com on December 18, 2020. This deal was announced and cancelled on December 16, 2020.^[5][6]

Devotion is currently available internationally via Red Candle Games' official digital store for Windows and OS X.^[1]

General information

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Availability[edit]

Later releases of the game are region-locked and cannot be played in China (including DRM-free releases).

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A 64-bit operating system is required.

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

1. ↑Unity engine build: 2017.1.0f3
2. ↑ ^2.02.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1006510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1006510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

1. ↑ ^1.01.1@redcandlegames on Twitter - last accessed on 2021-03-15

   'Hello, Red Candle e-shop is now online. https://shop.redcandlegames.com/en-US/
   #返校Detention, #還願Devotion and our future projects will all be on e-shop in DRM-free format.
   We hope to provide a direct and simple purchasing channel for players who’re interested in our games.'

2. ↑Taiwan game 'Devotion' upsets China with Winnie the Pooh reference - last accessed on 2019-02-25

   'Red Candle Games confirmed that Devotion had been removed from Steam China on 23 February, and issued an apology, saying the poster with the Winnie the Pooh reference had made it into the game by accident due to a technical issue.'

3. ↑ ^3.03.1About the Store Page
4. ↑ ^4.04.1《還願DEVOTION》6/8 - 6/15 期間限定預購 - last accessed on 2020-06-08
5. ↑ ^5.05.1@redcandlegames on Twitter - last accessed on 2020-12-16

   'Hello friends, we want to share with you– Red Candle will publish #還願Devotion on Dec 18 on GOG.
   https://gog.com/game/devotion
   The content and the price of the re-release remains the same, for $16.99 / €13.99
   Thank you for your trust and support. We wish you a happy end of the year'

6. ↑ ^6.06.1@GOGcom on Twitter - last accessed on 2020-12-16

   'Earlier today, it was announced that the game Devotion is coming to GOG. After receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.'

7. ↑赤燭回應《還願實體版》是DRM-FREE　試算就知道：根本買到賺到 - last accessed on 2020-12-28
8. ↑[1] - last accessed on 2021-03-15

Devotion has secured its future at Harvard University a year after it was pulled from Steam.

The superb horror game, developed by Taiwan studio Red Candle Games, launched on Steam in the spring of 2019, but after it was found to contain an unflattering reference to China's president, Xi Jinping, it sparked an outcry among Chinese players that led to the withdrawal of its Chinese distributors, the closure of Red Candle's account on Weibo, one of China's largest social media platforms, and the removal of the game from Steam.

A year later, and with a re-release looking unlikely, Red Candle has finally found a home for Devotion - the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University.

Both Devotion and its predecessor Detention have been added to the library's collection, Red Candle said in a post on Facebook. The move preserves both titles when there was fear they could be lost.

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'It is an incredible honour which belongs to not only Red Candle but also our supporters / players worldwide,' Red Candle said.

'Harvard-Yenching Library, formally founded in 1928, is known as the largest Eastern Asian library maintained by any American university. As game designers, never have we thought that our works could one day be added to its prestige collection. While we truly appreciate the recognition, we had also taken this opportunity to rethink the possibilities that our games could achieve.

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'For the past one year, we are sorry for making our community worried. Although the current status might not be ideal, we are still here and that nothing has changed - we are and will always develop games with the same passion.

'Last but not the least, we'd like to express our gratitude toward our partners, friends and families, especially a big thank you to all fans who still believe in Red Candle Games. It's a tough year for many of us, but we will keep going, and hopefully in the future we could share more works with you all.'

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Last year Eurogamer published a fascinating interview with Red Candle about what went down with Devotion, courtesy of writer Edwin Evans-Thirlwell. It's well worth a read if you want to know more about Devotion's developers and what they went through last year.