Taiwanese horror game suddenly reappeared after 2 years of “disappearing”

Devotion is considered the best horror game of 2019.

In the past 2 years, the fate of the horror game from Taiwan – Devotion really has many events. First released in February 2019, Devotion was available on Steam just six days before it was met with backlash from the gaming community. The reason is because some factors are too sensitive regarding politicians.

Publisher Red Candle Games had to apologize and remove the game from the Steam platform. Not long after, this same game company was also revoked its business license by the local government. Devotion’s fate was then considered closed.

After a while, Red Candle Games finally returned to work and led to the revival of Devotion. According to many reviews, Devotion’s revival is of great interest to the community. Regarded as one of the best horror games of 2019, Devotion’s return offers a chance to play the game for so many people have missed.

Set in the 1980s, Devotion focuses on a family of three: Du Feng Yu (Do Phong Vu) – a screenwriter going downhill, Li Fang (Le Phuong) – a singer and electric star He has retired and his sick little daughter is Mei Shin (My Tam) – a girl with the desire to become a star like her mother. The story mainly takes place in a modest apartment with a narrator who takes you through the events and disturbances in this intimate space.

In the game, Vu is a good screenwriter but has a downhill career, and is the husband of Phuong, who gave up a brilliant career to take care of her child Tam. Because she is the only daughter of the family, My Tam has a lot of expectations from her honorable father to become a superstar, and inadvertently those expectations put her under a great deal of pressure. Tam has a psychological syndrome that makes it difficult for her to breathe.

However, because the father was extremely fanatical, he did not believe the doctor’s conclusions but believed in a magician. Tam’s health may have improved at first, but failure in a talent contest caused her mental breakdown even more. In addition, the disagreements in the family came from the father who was greedy for fame and glory, and was too fanatical, making the wife unable to bear it and had to leave home. Meanwhile, because the father continued to do other crazy things, like soaking all the utensils of his birth mother for his son to drink to become a singer. He even listened to the charmer’s instructions to soak her in a bath of snake wine to help her get better. However, before the pressure and pain in both mind and body, Tam chose to leave in pain to have a peaceful life.

It can be said that the house gives players an attention and impression because the manufacturer has faithfully recreated every corner of a house in the real story. There are old newspapers used as card covers, pencils and scribbled scripts, walls with paintings by My Tam, and a calendar hanging on a CRT TV recording the family’s days. . Every detail, no matter how significant or important, will have a strong impact, confusing the inherent familiar feeling of the player. Every time you look away, the whole house will change and go to a certain state that makes the player shudder when he has to go back to face those unusual distortions.

Unlike many contemporary horror games, Devotion also omits scenes of stealthy trial-and-error action or single conflicts with monsters for added excitement. The game only has one final chase scene, but with the emotional background music, all thoughts are very short and easy without having to think too long. With an appropriate fast paced, the game pushes us to quickly get to the final scene and three hours is probably just enough to fully enjoy its emotions and experiences.