Devotion

About

Devotion drops you into a crumbling Taipei apartment in the 1980s. You play a husband returning home to a family that feels both familiar and off. The space shifts between warm domesticity and creeping dread as you navigate narrow corridors and cluttered rooms. Puzzles involve mundane objects, a radio, a fish tank, a child’s toys, that take on sinister weight. The real challenge is parsing the fractured memories of a household figuring out under religious fervor and hidden violence. The game’s strength lies in its eerie balance of comfort and terror. Retro aesthetics like VHS static and analog clocks heighten the sense of being trapped in a decaying time capsule. Player communities note its effective use of silence and suggestion over jump scares. At under three hours, it’s lean but impactful, with a twist that reframes the entire experience. The apartment itself feels like a character, its walls breathing with secrets.

Storyline

You step into your apartment, 80s music drifts through the air, an idol show plays on the television; a nostalgic setting surely, but what is this feeling of unease? You question this place you used to call “home,” noticing as it distorts with every shift of your eyes, anxious as your surroundings skirt the precipice of the extraordinary. As you push through each memory, uncovering the layers of each mystery, you may find buried in this home, the unsettling truth of those who lived here. “Remember what you prayed for…”