Orwell (video game) Orwell (video game) Orwell is a series of episodic simulation video games by German indie developer Osmotic Studios in which the player assumes the role of a state operative and monitors surveillance sources to find national security threats. It is named after George Orwell, the author of the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", references to which can be found in the game. The first game in the series, subtitled "Keeping an Eye on You", was released as a weekly, five-part serial for Windows beginning on October 20, 2016. "Orwell" takes place in a country called the Nation, led by a modern-day
George Orwell on how "to some extent Orwell facilitated the kinds of uses and abuses by the Right that his name has been put to. In other ways there has been the politics of selective quotation." Rodden refers to the essay "Why I Write", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his "watershed political experience", saying: "The Spanish War and other events in 1936–37, turned the scale. Thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and "for" Democratic Socialism as I