With the recent release of Cube Escape Paradox (Free) and its accompanying short film, as well as the short film adaptation of Lucas Pope’s award-winning Papers, Please ($7.99), filmmakers are showing that there’s plenty of fantastic storytelling to be mined from the world of video games. Now Beholder ($4.99) from Warm Lamp Games and Alawar Entertainment is the latest game to be getting a short film adaptation, and it’s being handled by Nikita Ordynskiy and Liliya Tkach of Russian film production studio KINODOM, who are the ones responsible for the excellent Papers, Please short film. Today they’ve released the first teaser for the Beholder film, and it’s striking to say the least.

In case you aren’t familiar with Beholder, it has you playing the role of a landlord in a totalitarian State who is managing a building full of tenants. The government calls on you to perform some pretty heinous activities, like surveilling your tenants without their knowledge and then reporting your findings to the powers that be. If you don’t do as they say you and your family’s well being could be put into jeopardy. It’s a dark and depressing but nonetheless fascinating experience that has you making tough moral choices and often putting yourself in danger in order to protect your tenants from the wrath of the totalitarian regime. Beholder was a big hit when it launched on desktop in the fall of 2016, and we really enjoyed (a...