Harvard University shall be preserving the controversial Taiwanese horror game Devotion as a part of its library’s East Asian assortment.
Developer Red Candle made the announcement on Facebook, confirming that Devotion will certainly be preserved regardless of being faraway from Steam over its inclusion of artwork mocking China’s president Xi Jinping.
“For the past one year, we are sorry for making our community worried”, the studio wrote in a put up. “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.”
“It’s a tough year for many of us,” they proceed, “but we will keep going, and hopefully in the future we could share more works with you all.”
Earlier this 12 months, Devotion discovered itself swamped with negative reviews from Chinese gamers after in-game content material mocking the Chinese president was noticed – a reference to the Xi Jinping Winner the Pooh meme. The game additionally included an Easter egg which purportedly acted as a talisman cursing everybody in mainland China.
The game’s developer has since issued an apology, saying placeholder artwork from the prototype was left within the game accidentally.
Devotion is joined at Harvard’s Yanjing library by one other game from the studio, Detention – which continues to be out there on Steam.
