When Devotion released, there was plenty of gamers talking about the title. It’s a psychological horror game with beautiful aesthetics that follows a screenwriter. Set in a complex apartment in Taipei, the protagonist finds himself going through a nightmarish world following the lives of a troubled family. The game itself was developed keeping in mind of Taiwanese culture and folk religion, however, Devotion hit some controversy that actually caused the title to be pulled from Steam. Now that some time has passed, the developers have spoken up about the game and unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it will be coming back out on the PC platform anytime soon.
Devotion released back on February 19, 2019, for the PC platform and it held some great reviews with critics and fans alike. However, the game was hit with controversy after a meme was discovered depicting the Chinese president as Winnie the Pooh. This discovery was only a few days after the game’s initial release, and because the meme references were insulting to the Chinese president, the title was quickly removed from China. This actually left the developers to lose their business license in China as well. Instead of just removing the game from access to the marketplace in China, the developers decided to remove the game completely.
Their reason behind the removal was to make sure any and all references of this meme was removed from the game before it was posted back online. The problem is that the title has yet to be uploaded to the marketplace. Now months later, the developers took to Twitter and released a statement. Overall, the statement makes note that the game won’t be released anytime soon. Instead, it seems that the developers are waiting for the controversy to die down and well launch the game in the future if they are able to rebuild trust with gamers around the world once again.
Source: Twitter
