Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Orwell @ Steam Visual Novel Fest
This is an obligatory announcement: The Orwell software is now available at a generously reduced (-75%) price for the event codenamed Steam Visual Novel Fest.
We strongly advise you to get your hands on it immediately if you have not acquired it yet.
We would also like to announce that information about a new software has been leaked to The Administration.
This not yet released application, codenamed Closer the Distance, has now been cleared for security level A and flagged for immediate preliminary inspection.
We urge all agents and investigators to add this software to their wishlist in order to track and closely examine all related activities as well as to uncover possible hidden messages or instructions immediately after its publication.
Find the briefing and all the information that is known so far here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991300/Closer_the_Distance/
As always, we thank you for your attention and remind you of your obligation to report any incidents and inconsistencies to The Administration.
Stay alert and remain vigilant!
The Orwell Administration
Orwell is off for LudoNarraCon
We once again ask for your attention: The Orwell software (both Keeping an Eye on You and Ignorance is Strength) is available at a steeply reduced price (-75% and -60%) for the event codenamed LudoNarraCon!
But this is hardly all. You are hereby strongly advised to check on the highly suspicious software as well as the presentations outlined and displayed at the following page:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon
Remain vigilant!
The Orwell Administration
Fellow Traveller's Suzerain Out Now!
Suzerain is a text based, political strategy game, where you play as the newly elected President of Sordland, following 20 year dictatorship. It’s 1954 and it’s your job to lead the country into an uncertain future.
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Navigate your first term through conversations with your cabinet members, colleagues and family. It’s up to you to decide who you will trust, what you will sacrifice and where your priorities lie.
Will you reform the constitution, transforming the Republic into a brutal dictatorship or true democracy? Align yourself with the capitalist of communist superpowers? Prepare for potential military threats on the horizon? Address racial minorities, women’s rights, the ongoing recession, immigration and all the other challenges and opportunities presented to a world leader.
If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Suzerain on Steam!
Fellow Traveller's Paradise Killer Launches Today!
Paradise Killer is an open world, murder mystery. Welcome to a whodunit tale where you get to decide who did the deed—you just have to PROVE it.
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On the eve of rebirthing a new Paradise Island, the Council of leaders is murdered and Paradise is killed. This is the crime to end all crimes.
You play as Lady Love Dies, an “investigation freak” who is summoned from exile to decide who the murderer is. Search for clues and find the evidence needed to accuse whoever you find guilty. Multiple suspects means multiple possible outcomes based on the evidence you discover and the choices you make.
What are the facts? What are the truths? Are they the same?
Who killed Paradise?
If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Paradise Killer on Steam!
New languages: Italian, Japanese and Indonesian
With the help of our loyal community of international agents we were finally able to make the Orwell system available in three more languages: From today you will be able to utilize Orwell in Italian, Japanese, as well as Indonesian. You are hereby encouraged to appreciate their effort.
As always, you can find detailed update instructions below.
Stay vigilant
The Orwell administration
Patchnotes Version 1.4.7424
Content
- added community localizations for Italian, Japanese and Indonesian
Fixes
- fixed a bug where the Insider tool wasn't unlocked correctly in Episode 3 on an OS with Turkish language setting
LudoNarraCon is live until April 27th! Keep an eye on our demo.
LudoNarraCon is here! Explore exhibitor streams, play a demo (...or 20! 😍), learn something new with 14 hours of panels, or snag one of the 50+ games that's on sale. This free digital festival celebrates indie narrative games like our's: with over 40 exhibitors, there's something for everyone.
Start the next chapter of your next favorite game. There are over 20 demos for you to download and play during LudoNarraCon.,, all from the comfort of your own home. Begin your work to protect The Nation: play our demo today!
Keep an eye on this Surveillance Stories bundle featuring four amazing games: Unheard, Do Not Feed the Monkeys, Beholder 2, and Orwell: Keeping An Eye On You. These limited time bundles are only available during LudoNarraCon!
Our exhibitors, panelists, and partners have all pitched into the LudoNarraCon sale. Snag one of the fifty games on sale throughout the weekend.
The Localizations Update is here!
We are constantly scouting for new recruits for the Orwell Project. But, as many of you have legtimately voiced, our surveillance effort would never be able not realize its full potential as long as it didn't include more languages.
This changes today! The Government of The Nation has spared no expense to present you official localizations of the Orwell software in
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Russian
- Chinese
as well as an unofficial localization in Portuguese (Brazil), put together by some of our most loyal citizens on translate.orwell-game.com. Also, we would like to say thank you to all our citizens who have pointed out errors minor imperfections in the Public Localization Beta, which is hereby concluded. Note that more languages will be added through future updates.
Additionally, the update brings tons improvements our engineers have worked on tirelessly in the recent months, such as a much demanded phone call text speed slider, a brand new hack effect intrusion warning, some reworked documents, and much shorter loading times.
Please refer to the full changelog below for a detailled list of improvements and additions.
As always, remain vigilant.
The Orwell Project Administration
Changelog Version 1.3
Content and feature changes
- added official localizations for German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese (change language from settings menu)
- added community localization for Portuguese (Brazil) [THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY ON TRANSLATE.ORWELL-GAME.COM!!]
- added a slider for text speed in phone calls
- slightly reworked timing of events such as comments by Symes
- all documents now dynamically adapt to content
- completely reworked the layout of some websites
- completely reworked some pictures
- slightly changed writing in places
- Spoiler episodes 2 & 5: completely reworked the hacking/glitch effect on Thought and in the Orwell system
- Spoiler episodes 5: the ending sequence now features a dark overlay to make it clearer what can be clicked and what cannot
Technical improvements
- greatly reduced loading times for savegames
- reduced memory footprint
- improved document loading, now loads contents element by element
Bugfixes
- phone calls will now correctly maintain their vertical scroll position if the call is still running
- overlays no longer freeze after uploading a Datachunk
- fixed a sound bug when music was muted during the closing cutscene
- fixed tons of typos in the English original text
The Public Localization Beta has started!
We’re stoked to invite you to the Public Beta of the localizations of Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You! These last months we put a ton of work into the project and it has proven to be much more effort than we thought initially thought: To make it happen, we had to rebuild large portions of the game from the ground up. Thank you so much for your patience sending positive feedback our way! :)
Since a lot of rework comes with many things that might go wrong, we’d like to put the current game state to a public test, for which we need YOU. As you know, many vigilant eyes will spot much more than only a few!
For instructions how to join please read on.
Languages included
This public beta includes the following languages:
- German (Deutsch)
- Spain (Español)
- French (Français)
- Russian (Русский)
- Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
Languages from the public translation project at translate.orwell-game.com will be added in later updates (by the way, you can still help bring Orwell to your language there!).
How to join the Beta
Whoa, easy now: If you never played Orwell before, you definitely should wait for the final public release of the localizations for the best experience. The final release shouldn’t be too far off now.
Moving forward, you’ll have access to a fully playable IN-DEVELOPMENT BUILD, which means:
- YOUR EXISTING SAVEGAMES (PROFILES) MAY BECOME CORRUPTED!! Please make backup copies of those (look for them in Documents\My Games\Orwell folder). We do not kid.
- There are unfinished, not proofread, and missing translations.
- There may be bugs and technical issues preventing game progress, possibly permanently.
Note that we can’t provide support for the Beta or repair broken savegames from it.
You can find a list of known issues here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CdVXT1mZ8so2w8NsgmThCgRowO0BgZ5aidAf8BMNGYY/edit?usp=sharing
To access the beta build, open up your Steam library and find Orwell. Right click it and select “Properties…”, then “Betas”. Enter the password ‘PublicLocaBeta’ (without ‘’) and confirm by clicking “Check Code”. There should now be a new option in the dropdown menu above named “public_localization_beta”. Select that, then wait for Steam to finish updating Orwell.
Done! Fertig! Et voilà ! You now have access to the Beta!
Reporting issues
It’d be great if you could report issues while you’re at it! Please go to the following Google form to report them: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZrT1ViBYmS9Ujdty78EJE4VNFSU8sCyvA-spv_N-ubgUSwg/viewform
Thanks for helping to make our game better! :)
Remain vigilant!
Vanessa, Michael and Daniel from Osmotic Studios
Thank you for Attending LudoNarraCon!
This was a great experience for our team, and we were thrilled to share it with you. We hope you enjoyed it -- we did! And if you didn't get to see any of the panels from the main stage, you can now view them all on YouTube!
Panels Revealed for LudoNarraCon (THIS FRIDAY)
Topics include:
Games as Storytelling
🎮 Patrick Ewing (creative director of Chance Agency)
🎮 Cassandra Khaw (scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal)
🎮 Whitney “Strix” Beltran (narrative director at Hidden Path Entertainment)
Romance in Games
❤️ Tanya X. Short (Captain of Kitfox Games)
❤️ Kate Gray (narrative designer at KO_OP)
❤️ Nina Freeman (game designer at Fullbright)
Writing for Short Games
✏️ Ben Wander (founder of A Wandering Band)
✏️ Bruno Dias (writer and narrative designer)
✏️ Ryan Green (developer, co-founder of Numinous Games)
✏️ Amy Green (writer, co-founder of Numinous Games)
Death in Games
💀 Lottie Bevan (co-founder & COO of Weather Factory)
💀 Alexis Kennedy (co-founder of Weather Factory)
💀 Coyan Cardenas (director of Lambic Studios)
💀 Will O'Neill (founder of WZO Games)
and more!
Tune in when the fun starts, at 10am PDT on Friday May 10!