Alawar announces Beholder 4 for PC as the dystopian series turns 10

Alawar has announced Beholder 4, a new entry in its dystopian narrative adventure series that is in development for PC, with a Steam page now live for wishlisting and no release date yet.

According to a release dated November 9th 2026, the reveal marks the series’ 10th anniversary. Players take the role of a young and promising Ministry official who is secretly working for the underground resistance. To superiors the character is diligent, ambitious and fiercely loyal to the State; behind closed doors, the official steals documents, sabotages operations and gathers intelligence for the resistance.

Beholder is a series of games about living under a surveillance state, in which choices carry consequences. The first game launched on Steam on November 9th 2016, which matches the anniversary Alawar is marking.

The release says players will balance a career inside the Ministry with increasingly dangerous covert assignments. They can plant wiretaps, crack safes, build relationships across opposing factions and destroy incriminating evidence before police raids expose the truth. Alawar describes doing the right thing as ‘rarely straightforward’.

A digital comic and an anniversary sale

To mark the anniversary, Alawar also released Beholder: The Landlord’s Handbook, which it describes as an illustrated government field manual for apartment managers. The release says the comic explores suspicious tenants, surveillance protocols and overheard conversations through darkly humorous vignettes. It is a digital comic, not a video game, and is available now on Steam with a 10% launch discount for the first two weeks.

The original Beholder is also 90% off on Steam through November 24th.

Alawar is an independent developer and publisher founded in 1999. According to the release, it specializes in midcore and casual games across PC, consoles and mobile devices. Its key titles include the Beholder series, Do Not Feed the Monkeys, Necrosmith, The Last Gas Station and the Wall World series.

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