Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| OUT NOW: Osmotic's new game Closer the Distance | 2024-08-02 | 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 ̸̺̃̓̈́͆͒̎b̸̡̻̺̳̼̬̫̄͌͝ |
| Dystopian Detectives Double Feature – Available Now! | 2024-07-31 | 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 |
| New game Closer the Distance coming soon! | 2024-06-03 | 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 proto |
| Orwell @ Steam Visual Novel Fest | 2023-08-07 | 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 |
| Orwell is off for LudoNarraCon | 2022-05-05 | 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! | 2020-12-04 | 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 de |
| Fellow Traveller's Paradise Killer Launches Today! | 2020-09-04 | 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 me |
| New languages: Italian, Japanese and Indonesian | 2020-05-25 | 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. | 2020-04-24 | 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 |
| The Localizations Update is here! | 2019-09-30 | 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 mino |
| The Public Localization Beta has started! | 2019-08-01 | 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 |
| Thank you for Attending LudoNarraCon! | 2019-05-15 | THANK YOU for coming the to first #LudoNarraCon! 💖😍 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/7fbe3d779df80b0ac8c24f6293d12e89770318de.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) | 2019-05-08 | LudoNarraCon panels are now live on ludonarracon.com https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/80598f1f11794db4834c9e2d1341389c78a9e971.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 |
| ⭐✨ Join us for LudoNarraCon this weekend! ✨⭐ | 2019-05-08 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.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-scen |
| 6 More Games Announced for LudoNarraCon! | 2019-05-01 | A whole bunch more games are exhibiting during LudoNarraCon! Overland https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/1cd021e5a706711e20c92ba42c1057503cc4f3b3.jpg Night Call https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/783c2319d75a09ad61657c028e2b28b9d48a1e28.jpg Not Tonight https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/3c42320aba58b1c53d102b56f0e1865d07abcb66.jpg Hiveswap: Act 1 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/9ab0c0295ccb6054d6b504e0753a4824b87e8894.jpg Whispers of a Machine https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/ste |
| 16 Games Announced for LudoNarraCon | 2019-04-16 | 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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.jpg An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller, LudoNarraCon is digital convention that aims to create a pla |
| ANNOUNCING ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐ | 2019-03-12 | We are beyond thrilled to announce 📢 ⭐✨LudoNarraCon✨⭐ https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025617/a2ef5d4816ac2233baefc17dc05cd36448125a20.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 gon |
| Orwell is coming to a language near you! | 2019-01-08 | 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 t |
| It’s time to recruit new investigators! Orwell is FREE for 24 hours | 2018-10-03 | (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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/8117495c105b747c29e4c2f6bd1f66265f45dc81.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 |
| Surprise Attack Games is now Fellow Traveller | 2018-07-26 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25928706/db6b95e8d4668f488883e5105a283d714f68caf7.png Today our publisher, Surprise Attack Games, is relaunching as Fellow Traveller. To celebrate, Orwell: Keeping An Eye On You, is on sale along with the rest of their catalogue. Check out their publisher sale page for all the details - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/fellowtraveller. Here’s some more from the team at Fellow Traveller on what the change is all about: For the past seven years, our journey as a small indie publisher from the shores of Australia has been quite momentous. Today marks the biggest stop on t |