- OUT NOW: Osmotic's new game Closer the Distance - 2 August 2024
Investigators, The time is upon us! The highly suspicious software "Closer the Distance" is now available on Steam and is being distributed worldwide. Since we have information that there are hidden messages contained within it, this must not happen without proper scrutiny exercised by our agents - such as you. Watch the following briefing video for reference. You are hereby ordered to obtain said software from Steam, play through it at length, and post your honest report as a review on the very same platform. Detà̴͇ils ̸̼͚̎̄ o̷͈̅n̵͔̒͆ ŷ̷̰̹ỏ̶̼ȕ̸̡͍̕r̸͔̓͠ ̷̳͋ m̵̨̺̃̉̈́͊i̶s̵s̷i̵o̶n̶ f̶̲̞͍̞͒o̶̢̪̮͕͆l̶̨̻̭͙͗̈̚͝ḷ̶̪͋̃͑̋o̴ẅ̵̞̜͙́ ̸̺̃̓̈́͆͒̎b̸̡̻̺̳̼̬̫̤̭̄͌͝ę̴̩̠̿̋̽͂͒̚͜͝l̷̦̥̾o̸ Hey everyone! We just wanted to say thank your ongoing support! You're awesome! Over the last years, we've poured our hears and souls into our new game Closer the Distance. While it's a very different game, we believe if you l…
- Dystopian Detectives Double Feature – Available Now! - 31 July 2024
Investigators, We are pleased to announce a new initiative in collaboration with the brilliant minds behind Cyber Manhunt 2: New World. Introducing the Dystopian Detectives Double Feature Bundle, an exclusive offering designed to enhance your investigative expertise. Take advantage of a 15% discount on this unique bundle today. This package includes groundbreaking software to enhance your investigative skills within dystopian stable and prosperous environments. Engage in intricate narratives and rigorous investigative tasks, offering hours of immersive and intellectually stimulating scenarios to hone your expertise. Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications, and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warn…
- New game Closer the Distance coming soon! - 3 June 2024
Investigators, Through unwavering dedication and the steadfast commitment of our intelligence operatives, we have garnered additional intelligence regarding the dubious activities surrounding the software codenamed Closer the Distance. In accordance with directive 42B, it is imperative that all agents and investigators meticulously review the following video footage and promptly relay any irregularities or notable features to their designated supervisor for comprehensive analysis and identification: Maintaining close surveillance of this application and monitoring all associated undertakings remains of paramount importance. A procedural protocol known as 'wishlisting' has been identified as a means to gain further insight into its inner workings. Access all pertinent briefings and available information via the following link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991300/Closer_the_Distanc…
- Orwell @ Steam Visual Novel Fest - 7 August 2023
Investigators, 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/…
- Orwell is off for LudoNarraCon - 5 May 2022
Investigators, 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! - 4 December 2020
Our publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, Suzerain is out today! 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. 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…
- Fellow Traveller's Paradise Killer Launches Today! - 4 September 2020
Our publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, 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. 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 S…
- New languages: Italian, Japanese and Indonesian - 25 May 2020
Investigators, 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. - 24 April 2020
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! - 30 September 2019
Investigators, 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…
- The Public Localization Beta has started! - 1 August 2019
Investigators, 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-g…
- Thank you for Attending LudoNarraCon! - 15 May 2019
THANK YOU for coming the to first #LudoNarraCon! 💖😍 https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F7fbe3d779df80b0ac8c24f6293d12e89770318de.png 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) - 8 May 2019
LudoNarraCon panels are now live on ludonarracon.com https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F80598f1f11794db4834c9e2d1341389c78a9e971.png 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 Car…
- ⭐✨ Join us for LudoNarraCon this weekend! ✨⭐ - 8 May 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F25928706%2Fa2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg We’ll be attending LudoNarraCon this weekend, a digital convention for narrative games hosted right here on Steam from 10 - 13 May. We will be ‘exhibiting’ at the event and streaming right here on the Orwell Steam store page. It’s being put on by indie games label, Fellow Traveller, and we’re really excited to be taking part alongside so many great games like Neo Cab, Cultist Simulator and Sunless Skies! We’d be thrilled if you can join us this weekend, and be sure to check out the rest of the event for more behind-the-scenes content, demos and really cool panels. More info here: LudoNarraCon
- 6 More Games Announced for LudoNarraCon! - 1 May 2019
A whole bunch more games are exhibiting during LudoNarraCon! Overland https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F1cd021e5a706711e20c92ba42c1057503cc4f3b3.jpg Night Call https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F783c2319d75a09ad61657c028e2b28b9d48a1e28.jpg Not Tonight https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F3c42320aba58b1c53d102b56f0e1865d07abcb66.jpg Hiveswap: Act 1 https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2F9ab0c0295ccb6054d6b504e0753a4824b87e8894.jpg Whispers of a Machine https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2Fe14b6c1f8bad185b7d710080ebe6721a59a2e5db.png and Hypnospace Outlaw https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2Fa03d47a427624575add48964342108979486ead3.jpg Check out the full,…
- 16 Games Announced for LudoNarraCon - 16 April 2019
Fellow Traveller presents #LudoNarraCon, hosted right here on Steam on May 10-13. Come celebrate narrative video games from around the world with us! We’ve announced 16 of the exhibiting games to be featured: Neo Cab, Boyfriend Dungeon, Mutazione, Heaven’s Vault, The Church in the Darkness, Sunless Skies, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Beholder, Genesis Noir, and more! Check out the full lineup on ludonarracon.com. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2Fa2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller, LudoNarraCon is digital convention that aims to create a platform to showcase and celebrate interesting and innovative narrative games, replicating as many of the aspects and benefits of the physical convention experience as possible within a digital format. Learn more at ludonarracon.com!
- ANNOUNCING ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐ - 12 March 2019
We are beyond thrilled to announce 📢 ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐ https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33025617%2Fa2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg a new online-only convention coming this May, right here on Steam, celebrating 🎮narrative video games🎮 the people who make them, and the folks who love them. Join us for panels and other fun content with your favorite developers and influencers from the industry, as well as downloadable game demos that will be available ONLY during LudoNarraCon. Want to come? IT’S FREE. Visit ludonarracon.com to sign up and let us know if you’ll attend, and to get updates on who’s gonna be there & what games you can play!
- Orwell is coming to a language near you! - 8 January 2019
Hello all! We’ve got really cool news for Orwell fans! Ever since Orwell Seasons One and Two released, we’ve constantly been asked whether we’d localize the game in other languages. Osmotic has always been interested in doing this, particularly since the game has such a strong narrative focus. What better way to ensure that players around the world can enjoy the game than to translate it into their language? So what’s been stopping us? Well, Orwell is specifically designed and coded in such a way that we had to build out a unique method of implementing translations, from scratch—which added time and other challenges to this goal. But—here’s the exciting bit! We’re now working through those challenges in a bunch of ways, one of which is hiring a professional localization service. Soon we’ll be able to release Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You to multiple new languages, including German, Fren…
- Orwell is going free for keepsies for another few hours - 4 October 2018
Almost as if they want you to install their software as a backdoor to r00t your b0x0r and spill your secrets to The Man, Osmotic Studios are giving their dystopian surveillance ’em up Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You away for free for keepsies right now ( again ). Nab it on Steam to register it to your account within the next few hours and it’ll be yours forever. For free, absolutely get in and start investigating dissidents, citizen. (more…)
- It’s time to recruit new investigators! Orwell is FREE for 24 hours - 3 October 2018
(Prospective) Investigators, If you or your friends haven’t played Orwell: Keeping and Eye on You, you can get it free on Steam for the next 24 hours! To add the game to your library, click on the Orwell steam page. For this week only, Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, season 2 of the series, is available at 40% off. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F25928706%2F8117495c105b747c29e4c2f6bd1f66265f45dc81.jpg As always, we want to hear your feedback. Please share your thoughts or questions in the steam community forum where we, the dev team, will be there to answer your questions. Team Osmotic
