AHH!: Devotion

I’ve played your Resident Evil 4s, your Dead Spaces, your 7th Guests, your Haunted Houses on Atari 2600. I loved them all, and each, in its own era and in its own way, gave me a good jump scare or a memorably nasty gross-out moment or just sent shivers up my spine. But in my book, Red Candle Games’ Devotion is on another level.

An early sequence involving chilling life-size dolls of your character and his wife crowding your meticulously detailed Taiwan apartment had me more terrified to turn around than I’ve ever been in a video game, so yeah, it delivers the scares in spades on just a raw “Is it scary?” level.

But what makes it cut so much deeper is the way that the game’s horror is rooted in the real, relatable horror of domestic grief, betrayal, and tragedy. Devotion is an absolute masterpiece from one of the most exciting new studios in the world today. -Carolyn Petit, managing editor