Beholder 3

I am going to get the obvious question out of the way first: is this game still bugged? Yes, it is. But--as you can see from my 100% completion--they aren't game-breaking. Primarily, issues sometimes occur when loading a game where you won't be able to interact with anything and the game clock breaks. While very frustrating, this was easily solved by quitting to desktop and relaunching the game. This didn't really impact anything during normal course of play for me, as I was rarely reloading in the middle of a session. However, when trying to load late game saves to explore alternate endings, this problem kept reoccurring. Bugs aside, this is a decent entry into the Beholder series. Admittedly, I do think it is the weakest entry but it still had all the basic charm of a Beholder game: spying on people, deciding how moral to be in a fundamentally immoral world, juggling said morals against a ticking clock of bills and quest timers. It draws from both of its predecessors, although more from the first game than the second. You start off as the property manager of an apartment building just like in the first game, but you will earn an office job part way through the game. The office p…

The game is a little dull in the first hours, but trust me it gets interesting

One of my favorite series. I do like that it is kinda tying back into the first one with watching people on surveillance and a bit more of a 3d experience.

I like this game much more than the first one. First off you can do much more where the first one in my opinion felt limited, and there is a lot more story to it and your goals are more clear. It just feels like a more refined product to me

Everybody's favorite Soviet Simulator is BACK! (Yes, I know it's not LITERALLY set in the Soviet Union, but it perfectly nails THE VIBE of that way of living.) I clocked it, each 2 seconds of REAL TIME passes 5 minutes of in-game time, meaning 24 real seconds equal 1 in-game hour, and 576 seconds of real time equals 1 in-game day. That explains why I can hardly get my bearings when there's 5 things to do at the same time. So when you see tasks due in 100 hours, you might think that's a comforting amount to plan for, until you realize that it's 24 real seconds per hour times 100, or due in 40 minutes of real time. The gameplay is an evolution of point-and-click where you go around, interacting with objects, and the game's primary selling point are 2 details: THE VIBE, and the WRITING. It really wants to drive home the characters, personalities, aspirations, all those things that real humans tend to lack with a sobering regularity. In terms of plot, there's a theme of "You can either save a life, or obey the law." With that in mind, the difference between this game world and Real Life is that you get put into a position of sufficient power where you CAN, in fact, make that sor…

Obligatory Forewore: I bought all 4 Beholder Titles as Part of a Bundle, I played all 4. I took some time to digest and here we are to list a review. I liked Beholder 3. I know there's a lot of negativity surrounding it and that's maybe because people were playing them in isolation of eachother, however as I tackled 1-3 back-to-back I can see what happened here. The original Beholder was a short game, it had a lot of promise, it was a wonderfully interesting concept we hadn't seen before and I think that it was brought out and achieved such unexpected success that the second game was ultimately rushed and so whilst larger in scope failed to hit the same level of success and became linear and uninspired. With 3 though it's a Return to Form. It's not as grand as 2's ideals, it's much much much closer to the first title. Is it a perfect entry? No. Unfortunately there are some truly horrible bugs but I had read up about this before going into this and so I backed up my saves multiple times as I progressed. The fact I needed a break after this one before Conductor is not a disparaging comment to 3, it's just man can only take so much Beholder before you just give up the ghost…