It was revealed today by Independent videogames developer Warm Lamp Games, their dark shade of black with its dystopian creation, Beholder, coming to Steam this autumn. Built on the Unity Engine and created with a primitive and evocative animation style, Beholder hurls gamers into the grim, hopeless society where they have the choice, as a state-appointed spy with keys to everyone’s lives in a local apartment building, to let them live, struggle, or die.
Check out the teaser trailer of Beholder, featuring a short cinematic video of the games’ story:
“You must peep and eavesdrop, bug apartments and search their rooms for whatever can threaten the authority of the State. You must profile and report on anyone capable of violating laws or plotting subversion against the State. But at what point is enough…enough?
Beholder is all about balancing your moral choices between empathetic and cruelty, warm-heartedness and indifference, light and dark, life and death. A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. Beholder is all about a choice. A choice that matters! What will you do with the collected information? Will you report on a father of a family and orphan his children? Or will you withhold information on his illegal activities and give him a chance to fix everything? You may as well choose to blackmail him to get the money your family desperately needs.
Key Features in Beholder include:
For more information on Beholder, visit its official website.
Includes several titles.
Which was showcased at E3 2003.