Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Osmotic Studios · Daedalic Entertainment

Released: Oct 27, 2016
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Last updated: 12 Sep 2026, 02:39 GMT

Updates & announcements

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02 Aug 2024Developer post
OUT NOW: Osmotic's new game Closer the Distance
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 exerci
31 Jul 2024Developer post
Dystopian Detectives Double Feature – Available Now!
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 advanta
03 Jun 2024Developer post
New game Closer the Distance coming soon!
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 imp
07 Aug 2023Developer post
Orwell @ Steam Visual Novel Fest
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
05 May 2022Developer post
Orwell is off for LudoNarraCon
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
04 Dec 2020Developer post
Fellow Traveller's Suzerain Out Now!
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
04 Sep 2020Developer post
Fellow Traveller's Paradise Killer Launches Today!
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
25 May 2020Developer post
New languages: Italian, Japanese and Indonesian
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 a
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
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24 Apr 2020Developer post
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 somethin
30 Sep 2019Developer post
The Localizations Update is here!
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 Governme
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, 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
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01 Aug 2019Developer post
The Public Localization Beta has started!
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 re
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-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
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15 May 2019Developer post
Thank you for Attending LudoNarraCon!
THANK YOU for coming the to first #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 !
08 May 2019Developer post
Panels Revealed for LudoNarraCon (THIS FRIDAY)
LudoNarraCon panels are now live on ludonarracon.com 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) Roman
08 May 2019Developer post
⭐✨ Join us for LudoNarraCon this weekend! ✨⭐
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 Travell
01 May 2019Developer post
6 More Games Announced for LudoNarraCon!
A whole bunch more games are exhibiting during LudoNarraCon! Overland Night Call Not Tonight Hiveswap: Act 1 Whispers of a Machine and Hypnospace Outlaw Check out the full, updated list of games you can see behind-the-scenes content for during LNC, on ludonarracon.com 💖
16 Apr 2019Developer post
16 Games Announced for LudoNarraCon
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 th
12 Mar 2019Developer post
ANNOUNCING ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐
We are beyond thrilled to announce 📢 ⭐✨ LudoNarraCon ✨⭐ 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 dev
08 Jan 2019Developer post
Orwell is coming to a language near you!
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 na
04 Oct 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Orwell is going free for keepsies for another few hours
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
03 Oct 2018Developer post
It’s time to recruit new investigators! Orwell is FREE for 24 hours
(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 t