The Taiwanese horror game Devotion was pulled from Steam last year after an easter egg making fun of Chinese president Xi Jinping was discovered, leading to review bombs and the game's publisher Indievent losing its business license. Now, a year after it was first released, Devotion's developers Red Candle Games have announced the game will be preserved by the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Devotion had players explore a 1980's Taiwan apartment complex "lost in time" that "gradually shift[s] into a hellish nightmare" according to Red Candle Games' February 19, 2019 Tweet when it was first released. The game was pulled that July due to its infamous easter egg comparing Jinping to Winnie the Pooh and calling him a "moron," but the studio's first game Detention from 2017 is still available on Steam alongside both soundtracks.

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Red Candle Games announced that both Devotion and Detention will be preserved on Twitter Thursday after receiving a confirmation letter from the Harvard-Yenching Library's librarian James Cheng. The organized library kept by the Harvard-Yenching Institute was first established as the Chinese-Japanese Library in 1928, and is an independent foundation "dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences" according to its website.

The story behind Devotion's initial censorship is not an unusual one. Winnie the Pooh is entirely banned in China because of the connections made to Jinping, leader of the Communist Party of China that has an immense amount of control over the nation's politics, access to information, and overall media landscape.

That control has led to unrest across China, including the pro-independence protests in Hong Kong that gained widespread attention starting last year. Blizzard Entertainment was criticized for banning professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung after he spoke up in favor of the Hong Kong protests.

Devotion's removal from Steam last year may also have been a harbinger for things to come. Many Chinese game developers are concerned that Steam as it currently stands may soon disappear because of Valve developing a China-exclusive version of Steam that will only release titles in-line with the country's licensing and censorship laws.

Thus it's lucky that the Harvard-Yenching Institute has decided to archive these Taiwanese titles. Infamous easter egg aside, Devotion was one of the most intense and scary games from 2019, and it's important that ephemeral games (particularly from independent developers) are preserved like any other works of art.

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Sources: Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard-Yenching Library Collections