Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games’ most recent release drew a sizable amount of controversy, and was eventually pulled form digital distribution, over an in-game meme mocking China’s president, but, despite remaining delisted, the game won’t vanish completely.
Both the now-infamous horror game Devotion and Red Candle’s previous horror entry Detention have been added to the Harvard-Yenching Library, an arm of Harvard University’s library aimed at preserving and collecting East Asian art and historical artifacts.
“As game designers, never have we thought that our works could one day be added to its prestige collection.
Red Candle later said that the meme, a small poster featured in-game, was placeholder art that mistakenly made its way to the final release.