Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your…
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is an adventure developed by Osmotic Studios, released 22 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Linux and Mac. It currently starts at $2.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 6.3 hrs to finish.
What Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is an adventure game developed by Osmotic Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Surprise Attack Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Orwell is a series of episodic simulation video games by indie developer Osmotic Studios in which the player assumes the role of a state operative and monitors surveillance sources to find national security threats.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.47 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM and GPU: DirectX 9 compatible. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Steam, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength launched on 22 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018) and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018), Into the Breach.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Orwell: Ignorance is Strength yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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