{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c7cdcda12ca10e4148be5a14","clusterId":"c_c9a3888695efd4dc6d35a8a4","slug":"alawar-announces-beholder-4-as-series-marks-10th-anniversary","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Alawar Announces Beholder 4 as Series Marks 10th Anniversary","summary":"Alawar announced Beholder 4 on November 10, 2026, timed to the 10th anniversary of the first Beholder game's release. The spy adventure game has an announce trailer and an open Steam store page, and it supports Japanese among its languages. The release date is undecided. Players work as a young official in the ministry that monitors residents while secretly belonging to an underground organization that defies the state. By day they process documents and aim for promotion; off the desk they eavesdrop on conversations, peek through keyholes, steal keys to open safes, forge documents, and plant listening devices. The ministry orders the player to find the traitor among colleagues, while the underground demands that person be allowed to escape. Stolen documents brought home can draw a police search, and the player has seconds to hide them in a vent or under the mattress, or discard them. Each search is stricter than the last. The game also has romance with four women of differing personalities.","whyItMatters":"Past Beholder protagonists served the state, so making the player an underground member from the start reverses the series' premise of playing someone on the surveillance side.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eAnniversary extras come with the reveal. A digital comic styled as a guide for landlords, \u0026#34;Beholder: The Landlord\u0026#39;s Handbook,\u0026#34; is on sale on Steam in English. The first Beholder is discounted 90 percent on Steam to 160 yen, a sale running until November 24.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe double life runs on fixed routines. Every staff member at the ministry has set behavior patterns and secrets, and some information can only be obtained by standing in a fixed place at a fixed time. Promotion brings the player closer to confidential documents, but it also means signing arrest warrants. Collected papers work as blackmail material against officials or as support for the underground.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two employers issue directly opposing orders. The ministry says to \u0026#34;find the traitor among your colleagues,\u0026#34; while the underground says to \u0026#34;let that person escape.\u0026#34; Letting a traitor slip away can invigorate the underground\u0026#39;s activities; reporting one earns trust from the state, and which side the player favors changes personal relationships. If documents are found in a search, the player can talk their way out with lies, excuses, or the power of the position.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe romance carries its own traps. Relationships deepen by listening to the women\u0026#39;s troubles and going on dates, but a love interest may side with the state or ask the player to disobey orders. No choice is correct just because it was picked, and the game remembers what the player did.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Beholder 4 pairs its ministry desk work with searches that get stricter each time, so the documents you steal at night are the risk you carry by day. Alawar built the spy loop around that escalation.","twitterPost":"Alawar's Beholder 4 makes each police search stricter than the last, so the documents you steal are a debt that comes due later.","threadsPost":"Beholder 4 gives the player a ministry day job and an underground night job, and the searches that follow stolen documents get stricter each time. Alawar ties the spy fantasy to a cost that compounds.","newsletterBlurb":"Alawar has announced Beholder 4, a double-agent adventure where you pose as a loyal young official while feeding an underground organization. The reveal lands on the series' 10th anniversary, with the first game discounted 90 percent until November 24.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/056/G105682/20261110002/\",\"title\":\"Latest Series Entry \\\"Beholder 4\\\" Announced: A \\\"Double Agent\\\" Adventure Game Where You Pose as a Loyal Young State Official and Support the Underground\"},{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261110d\",\"title\":\"Beholder 4 Announced: A Game Where You Work as a Government Official by Day and Operate as an Underground Spy by Night; In a Dark Dystopia Where Everyone Is Watched, It's Up to the Player Whether to Side with the State or the Underground\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":10565,"outputTokens":1228,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1794273511,"createdAt":"2026-11-10T01:13:01.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-11-10T01:17:25.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-10T01:17:25.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_c9a3888695efd4dc6d35a8a4","canonicalTitle":"シリーズ最新作「Beholder 4」が発表。国家に忠実な若手職員を装い，地下組織を支援する“二重スパイ”アドベンチャーゲーム","representativeArticleId":"a_0d65a0aafd7f9a1a97423700","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":2,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Beholder 4\"],\"studios\":[\"Alawar\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-11-09T22:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-11-09T22:28:22.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-10T01:17:26.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/056/G105682/20261110002/","title":"シリーズ最新作「Beholder 4」が発表。国家に忠実な若手職員を装い，地下組織を支援する“二重スパイ”アドベンチャーゲーム"},{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261110d","title":"昼は国の役人、裏では地下組織のスパイとして暗躍するゲーム『Beholder 4』が発表。誰もが監視されるダークなディストピアで、国と地下組織のどちらにつくかはプレイヤー次第"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Beholder 4"],"studios":["Alawar"],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Alawar announced Beholder 4 on November 10, 2026, with a release date undecided.","The Beholder 4 announcement is timed to the 10th anniversary of the first Beholder game's release.","The first Beholder is on sale on Steam at 90 percent off, 160 yen, until November 24.","Beholder 4 players work as a ministry official while secretly spying for an underground organization.","The digital comic Beholder: The Landlord's Handbook is on sale on Steam."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["beholder-4","alawar"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"beholder-4","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":5,"overall":"unverified","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false},{"slug":"alawar","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":2,"overall":"unverified","story_count":3,"has_dossier":true}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}