Taiwanese horror game Devotion appears to have been removed from Steam after it drew the ire of Chinese gamers by including a meme that mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping. The meme angered gamers enough that they left thousands of thumbs-down reviews on Steam for Devotion, forcing the developer to apologize, as spotted earlier by Polygon.
Twitch’s hottest psychological horror game Devotion takes players through an abandoned 1980’s apartment complex in Taiwan where they have to figure out what happened to the religious family that once lived there. It’s the second horror game from the Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games, which also produced Detention. One unexpected easter egg on the walls, though: a cursed talisman poster that says “Xi…
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