Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $2.70/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU: DirectX 9 compatible, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
September 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 83 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Not For Broadcast ($24.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12).
None of the 506 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 206 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.7 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
57% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've reached the part where the Influencer mode is introduced, and I can't use it. So I'm stuck between my moral ethic and wanting to complete the game. It's frustrating to not have a way to not use the influencer, or be able to use the way I be okay with. I enjoy the new mechanics, I really enjoy the game, but for now I just can't finish it xD They did a great job making this whole fake news era we're in into this...
I really enjoyed both Orwell games a lot! I will say the 1st game (Orwell: Keeping an eye on you) was much better and a lot less tedious for chasing 100% achieves, though this one (which is the 2nd) was a lot better story-wise even if it was a lot shorter (approx. 1 hour an episode and only 3 episodes all up), I just found some of the endings really hard to achieve in this one.
This game (and its predecessor) was recommended to me, and I'm rather quite glad for the recommendation! It's a great game (though the first is narratively stronger), that asks questions about truth, surveillance, the value of information and safety as well as challenging you, the player, to piece together a complex story of very human events. The characters' stories feel human and understandable, and the themes of...
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Cite this score
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/633060/orwell-ignorance-is-strengthReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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