A Ghost Story, But Youre the Ghost
It’s the late 1980s in Taipei, Taiwan.
One evening, Du Feng Yu is watching TV in his apartment before dinner.
It’s still empty, but now it’s two years earlier, and everything is subtly wrong.
Wikipedia
Devotionis a first-person adventure game in the spirit of “walking simulators” likeGone HomeorWhat Remains of Edith Finch.
That involves exploration, searching for clues, and solving the occasional puzzle.
What keeps the game moving is that it’s got a very narrow focus.
Each time I visited Feng Yu’s apartment,Devotionfound a brand new way to get under my skin.
The Million-Pound Banhammer
Devotionwas made by Red Candle Games, an independent studio headquartered in Taipei.
As it turned out, that was part of the problem.
Afterits original launch in February 2019, Devotion quickly became popular among players and streamers in China.
I’d heardDevotionwas good, but missed the two-day window to buy it back in 2019.
