Indie horror game Devotion may never come back to Steam ... | devotion game
It’sbeennearlyfivemonthssinceTaiwanesegamestudioRedCandleGamespulleditslatesttitle[1],horrorgameDevotion[2],fromsale.Amidcontroversy[3]thatithadincludedadisparagingremarkaboutChinesepresidentXiJinpinginDevotion,thestudioapologizedandremovedthegamefromSteaminordertoperforma“completeQAcheck”onallofthegame’sartworkassets.DevotionhasnotreturnedtoSteam,andbasedonanewstatementfromthedeveloper,itdoesn’tsoundlikethegamewillreappearanytimesoon,ifatall.RedCandleGames’updateonDevotionisdeeplyapologetic...
It’s been nearly five months since Taiwanese game studio Red Candle Games pulled its latest title[1], horror game Devotion[2], from sale. Amid controversy[3] that it had included a disparaging remark about Chinese president Xi Jinping in Devotion, the studio apologized and removed the game from Steam in order to perform a “complete QA check” on all of the game’s artwork assets.
Devotion has not returned to Steam, and based on a new statement from the developer, it doesn’t sound like the game will reappear anytime soon, if at all.
Red Candle Games’ update on Devotion is deeply apologetic, both to its publishing partner for the controversy (which the studio calls “a malfunction of project management, not a deliberate act”) and to players who have not been able to purchase the game.
“We made a critical and unprofessional error during the game’s production,” Red Candle Games said in posts on Twitter and Facebook. “...