Eurogamer
Date: 22 February 2020
By: Wesley Yin-Poole, Deputy Editor

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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