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Beholder 4: everything the State has admitted so far

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One teaser, one store page, zero invented dates. Here is what Alawar has actually confirmed about the next Beholder, and what the series' own rules tell us to expect.

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1

What Beholder 4 is

Alawar's fourth mainline entry in the dystopian State series, listed on Steam as appid 5522030 with the release date still marked To be announced.

2

The teaser, decoded

The only official moving image so far is Alawar's own Announcement Teaser, verified via oEmbed on the Alawar channel.

3

Series recap in 8 minutes

Beholder 2016, Beholder 2 in 2018, Beholder 3 in 2022, and the 2025 spin-off Conductor, so the new entry's continuity makes sense.

4

Systems that will return

Surveillance, informant reports, moral branching and apartment-bound decision making are the series' fixed spine, not new features.

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About Beholder 4

Beholder 4 is the next mainline instalment of Alawar's dystopian adventure series, listed on Steam as appid 5522030 with Alawar credited as both developer and publisher. The store page marks the release date as To be announced, so no launch window exists yet.

The official description frames the game around a totalitarian State where choices matter, with the player living a double life as an official and an underground agent: spying, sabotaging, building relationships and deciding other people's fates. That is the same loop the series has used since 2016.

Everything beyond that, including the protagonist's name, the country analogue, the number of endings and the price, has not been published. This site separates confirmed material from analysis and labels each accordingly.

See the Steam listing

Developer

Alawar

Publisher

Alawar

Platform

Steam (Windows)

Genre

Adventure / Indie / Simulation

Languages

11 supported

Release

To be announced

Beholder 4 Sections

Eight sections: the undated launch, the Steam listing and its languages, the double-life premise, the unnamed cast, how the series plays, what can honestly be reviewed, the missing price, and where this sits after Conductor.

Beholder 4 Release DateBeholder 4 PlatformsBeholder 4 StoryBeholder 4 CharactersBeholder 4 GuideBeholder 4 ReviewBeholder 4 PriceBeholder 4 in the Series

Beholder 4 Release Date

Alawar has the Steam page live and wishlistable, but the release date still reads To be announced. Here is what is confirmed and how the series has actually spaced its launches.

1Steam still shows To be announced with coming_soon set, and no price has been published either
2The three mainline games landed in 2016, 2018 and 2022, so gaps of two and four years rather than a fixed cycle
3Beholder: Conductor shipped in April 2025 as a separate entry, which means this is the first numbered sequel since 2022
4No delay has been announced, so any page quoting a specific day is guessing rather than reporting
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Beholder 4 Platforms

The store listing is a Steam release on Windows from Alawar, tagged Adventure, Indie and Simulation, with eleven supported languages including both Chinese scripts.

1Steam app 5522030 is the only confirmed storefront, and Alawar is both developer and publisher
2The listing carries eleven supported languages, which is unusually wide for a game that has not shipped yet
3Genres are Adventure, Indie and Simulation, matching the slow, dialogue-driven structure of the earlier games
4Only Windows is listed at the moment, so a console version has not been announced
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Beholder 4 Story

The official blurb returns to the same totalitarian State and puts you in a double life: an official on the surface, an underground agent underneath.

1The store text says you live a double life as an official and an underground agent in a totalitarian State
2Your listed verbs are spy, sabotage, build relationships and decide other people's fates
3The setup line is blunt about the stakes: the police are coming and your home is full of evidence
4No character names or plot beats have been published, so story details beyond that blurb remain unconfirmed
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Beholder 4 Characters

Alawar has not published a cast list for this entry. The blurb names roles rather than people, which is consistent with how the earlier games revealed their families.

1The official description refers only to an official, an underground agent and the police, with no proper names
2Building relationships is listed as a core verb, which implies a household or neighbour cast the way the earlier games had one
3Deciding other people's fates suggests the same branching judgement system that drove the previous entries
4Any specific name circulating online is fan speculation until Alawar lists it on the store page
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Beholder 4 Guide

The game has not shipped, so there is no walkthrough to write yet. What can be established now is how the series works, which is what this section covers.

1Every previous game is a single-character simulator about observing neighbours and reporting what you find
2Choices carry consequences across the whole run, so there is no safe neutral path through the story
3The series is dialogue and document driven rather than action driven, so reading speed matters more than reflexes
4Once Alawar publishes mechanics, this section will be rewritten with confirmed systems rather than inherited ones
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Beholder 4 Review

There is nothing to review yet, and Alawar has published no gameplay footage beyond the announcement teaser. This section tracks what is actually verifiable.

1No Metacritic entry exists and Steam user reviews cannot appear before launch, so any score you see now is fabricated
2The only official footage is the Announcement Teaser on the Alawar channel, verified through YouTube oEmbed
3A video titled Official Announcement Trailer from Indie Games Hub is a reupload, not an Alawar release
4The series has held a consistent tone across three entries, which is the fairest basis for expectation right now
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Beholder 4 Price

No price has been published. Steam has no price_overview for the app yet, so every figure circulating is an estimate borrowed from the older games.

1Steam returns no price data for app 5522030, which means pre-orders have not opened
2The earlier numbered entries were budget-priced indie releases, which is the only honest basis for a guess
3No deluxe edition, season pass or pre-order bonus has been announced
4Wishlisting on Steam is free and is the only action that currently does anything useful
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Beholder 4 in the Series

Four releases sit behind this one: Beholder in 2016, Beholder 2 in 2018, Beholder 3 in 2022 and Beholder: Conductor in 2025. The order matters more than the numbers suggest.

1Beholder arrived in November 2016 and established the observe-and-report loop the series still runs on
2Beholder 2 followed in December 2018 and Beholder 3 in March 2022, each shifting the protagonist's position in the State
3Beholder: Conductor landed in April 2025 as a side entry rather than a numbered sequel
4This is the first numbered mainline release in four years, which is why the announcement drew attention
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Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to what players ask most about Beholder 4.

Track Beholder 4 without the noise

We re-check the Steam page, the Alawar site and the official channel every day, and only publish what changed.

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