Beholder 4 announced: an official with a double life in the Ministry

Alawar announced Beholder 4, showing a debut teaser. The announcement came exactly ten years after the release of the first part of the series: the new game will again put players in a totalitarian state, where every signature and every overheard conversation changes someone’s fate.

A career by day, resistance by night

The game is being developed by Paintbucket Games, known for the political strategy Through the Darkest of Times. This time, the player takes on the role of a young ministerial official who leads a dangerous double life: during the day he diligently serves the repressive state and moves up the career ladder, and at night he secretly helps the underground resistance that seeks to overthrow the regime.

Most of the action takes place inside the Ministry. Players have a whole range of spy activities at their disposal:

• processing personal files of citizens and signing orders;
• eavesdropping on colleagues;
• cracking safes and stealing keys;
• blackmail.

Inspections, evidence and moral dilemmas

There is little chance to relax: superiors stage surprise inspections and searches, so evidence has to be destroyed in time. The story regularly poses difficult moral dilemmas, and each decision affects the balance of power between the state and the rebels.

A separate thread is romance with four women. Each has her own beliefs and goals, so personal attachments further tangle the web of workplace relationships. The description on Steam adds one more touch: in addition to espionage, the player will have to build relationships and decide the fate of other people, and at some point the hero’s house will be full of evidence.

There is no exact release date yet. But the page on Steam can already be added to your wishlist, and its genres are listed modestly: adventure, indie and simulation.

Source: vgtimes.ru