Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Using the new governmental security program that has the power to survey the online presence of every person in The Nation, you investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of…
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is an adventure developed by Osmotic Studios, released 27 October 2016 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux. The main story takes about 6.5 hrs to finish.
What Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is an adventure game developed by Osmotic Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Surprise Attack Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 warned, the information you supply will have consequences… Orwell is a new governmental security program that has the power to survey the online presence of every person in The Nation. It can monitor all personal communications and access any computer. To preserve the privacy of citizens, human researchers examine the data Orwell finds and decide which pieces of information should be passed on to the security forces, and which should be rejected. Selected…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery, science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.5 hrs.
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 launched against
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You launched on 27 October 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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