Beauty in the DLC of Beholder This Spring

The first DLC for Beholder is coming to Steam later this year. Available on Windows, Mac and Linux, the game is a dark look at just what can happen under an oppressive regime. With surveillance techniques and plotlines akin to George Orwell classic 1984, it’s a tribute to the great work of literature, and the rabbit hole is set to get deeper with the launch of the Blissful Sleep DLC in the Spring.

The Beholder: Blissful Sleep DLC introduces several deeper, more complicated character backgrounds and shocking story twists taking place in the same Krushvice 6 house before the original storyline begins. The State laws have become more oppressive than ever, disrupting the lives of the people and leaving them miserable and in search of salvation. Players continue to operate under strict totalitarian rules, everyday making moral choices that eventually lead to one of several story endings available

“After the successful launch of Beholder last year, we saw how involved people got into the narrative so we decided to start working on a DLC pack introducing the backstory of the original game”, said Evgeny Sister, Producer at Alawar. “As a cog in a totalitarian machine players face an unrelenting dystopian reality: the laws are oppressive, people are under complete surveillance and privacy is non-existent. They must decide whether to keep ‘the machine’ running smoothly or to follow their gut and choose a more ethical course of action.”