In a post published on its social media accounts, the Taipei-based company announced the opening of its e-shop at https://shop.redcandlegames.com/ in which its two games "Detention" and "Devotion" are available for purchase in DRM-free format.
DRM-free means a player can copy the game folder anywhere he or she wants after purchase and launch the game directly without being online or have third-party software running.
"We hope to provide a direct and simple purchase channel for players who are interested in our games," Red Candle said in its post.
The launch of the Red Candle e-shop came three months after Polish-based GOG.com retracted an earlier decision to stock "Devotion" in its store in December, following boycott threats from Chinese gamers due to hidden content in the game that mocks Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"Devotion" was originally released on Steam, another digital game distribution platform, in February 2019 to widespread praise for its setting -- an abandoned apartment complex in 1980s Taiwan that created a psychological horror adventure for gamers.
Players, however, soon discovered a Taoist talisman decorating a wall in the game containing the words "Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh" in Chinese characters -- a reference to an internet meme that compares the Chinese leader to the popular cartoon character.
Also on the talisman were the characters 呢嘛叭唭, a phrase that has the same pronunciation as "your mother is a moron" in hoklo, which is widely spoken in Taiwan.
