Beholder 4 announced for PC: you play a Ministry official secretly working for the underground, no release date yet, original Beholder 90% off

Video: “Beholder 4 | Announcement Teaser”, official Alawar YouTube channel, November 9, 2026 (7:01 p.m. Paris time), 33 s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDAJtKpASk

Alawar has announced Beholder 4, the next main game in its dystopian surveillance series, on November 9, 2026, as part of the series’ 10th anniversary. The Steam page sums up the change: “You used to watch your tenants” in earlier games; now you play a young, ambitious Ministry official who secretly works for the underground resistance. The Steam page is live with a wishlist button, but no release date or price yet: the date reads “To be announced”. Alawar also released a digital comic and put the original Beholder on a 90% discount.

According to the Steam page and Alawar’s announcement, Beholder 4 is a narrative adventure and simulation game in which you live a double life. By day you process citizens’ files, sign orders and climb the career ladder at the Ministry. In secret, you steal classified documents, sabotage operations and help the resistance, while hiding something “even from your comrades”.

Spying inside the Ministry: explore its halls and restricted offices, eavesdrop, peer through keyholes, steal keys, crack safes, forge documents and plant listening devices, then use compromising information to blackmail officials or help the underground.

Both sides at once: the Ministry may order you to find a traitor while the underground asks you to help that same person escape; a promotion opens classified archives but means signing arrest orders yourself.

Police searches at home: when officers knock, you have seconds to hide evidence in vents, under the mattress or in other hiding places, or destroy documents for good. If something is found, you can lie, make excuses or pull rank, and the searches get more persistent over time.

Relationships: four women, some working for the State and some for the resistance, with dates and romances that can clash with your orders.

Consequences: Alawar says there is no “do the right thing” button; your decisions affect characters’ fates, operations and how the story unfolds, and a new playthrough can go very differently.

Platform: PC (Windows) on Steam. No console version is listed on the Steam page or on Alawar’s game page at the time of writing.

Release date: “To be announced” on Steam; Alawar’s site says “Coming Soon”. No year has been given.

Price: not announced.

Languages listed on Steam: English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Japanese. The Steam listing does not detail which languages have full audio.

Features listed: single-player, Steam Achievements, full controller support including DualSense, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing.

Minimum PC requirements (as listed, may change during development): 64-bit Windows 10, Intel Core i5-4440 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 960, Radeon RX 550 or Intel HD Graphics 4600, 10 GB of storage.

Content: the Steam page warns of mature themes, including violence, psychological pressure, moral dilemmas and disturbing situations.

Alawar’s anniversary announcement says the original Beholder is 90% off as a Steam Daily Deal from November 9 to November 24 (end time not specified). On November 10 at about 10:20 a.m. Paris time, Steam showed it at $1.39 instead of $13.99 in the US and €1.37 instead of €13.79 in France. The studio also released Beholder: The Landlord’s Handbook on November 9, a digital comic designed as an illustrated manual for landlords. Alawar stresses that it is not a video game. It has a 10% launch discount for the first two weeks ($4.49 instead of $4.99, €4.40 instead of €4.89 at the time of our check). Prices can change; check the store before buying.

Beholder 4 comes from the team behind Beholder: Conductor, the train-based spin-off released on Steam in April 2025 and on PS5 and Switch in June 2026.

Sources: Beholder 4 Steam page (description, platform, “To be announced” date, languages, features, requirements, content notice), checked November 10, 2026 at about 10:20 a.m. Paris time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5522030/Beholder_4/ ; Alawar Steam announcement “Beholder’s 10th Anniversary: Beholder 4 Revealed!”, November 9, 2026, 7:01 p.m. Paris time: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/5522030/view/716795267588817401 ; Alawar game page: https://alawar.com/games/beholder-4 ; original Beholder on Steam (90% discount, checked November 10): https://store.steampowered.com/app/475550/Beholder/ ; Beholder: The Landlord’s Handbook on Steam (released November 9, 2026): https://store.steampowered.com/app/5405460/Beholder_The_Landlords_Handbook_Digital_Comic/ ; announcement teaser, Alawar YouTube, November 9, 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDAJtKpASk. Image: official Beholder 4 screenshot from the Steam page, © Alawar.