Beholder
Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) · 2016 · Dystopian , Choices Matter, Political Sim, Strategy, Atmospheric
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About Beholder
You're a surveillance manager in a totalitarian state forced to spy on apartment tenants while deciding whether to report them, blackmail them, or protect them—with your choices determining which of multiple endings you'll earn. The game's power lies in its moral complexity, where every decision about your tenants' fates carries real consequences for their families and your own survival.
A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and public life.
Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead.
You are the State-installed manager of an apartment building. Your daily routine involves making the building a sweet spot for tenants, who will come and go. However, that is simply a facade that hides your real mission...
Your primary task is to covertly watch your tenants and eavesdrop on their conversations. You must BUG their apartments while they're away, SEARCH their belongings for whatever can threaten the authority of the State, and PROFILE them for your superiors. You must also REPORT anyone capable of violating the laws or plotting subversive activities against the State to the authorities.
You are a cog in a totalitarian machine with your own family who also has needs. Do you cling to your humanity and cover up your tenants? Or do you survive by staying loyal to the regime? The choice is yours.
You can report the suspicious activities of a father but orphan his children. Or you can withhold the details about his illegal activities and give him a chance to make things right? Or you can blackmail him to earn something your family.
As you play the game, you'll interact with many characters and complete dozens of quests. You'll also make decisions that will affect the way the story unfolds. This will lead to one of several game endings - the ending you have earned!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
a good game not ground breaking but a good game its has a good loop that doesnt feel repetitive its a bit hard but you get used to it, i like that the game doesnt really tell you that your doing a big choice makes you need to think before doing any decision
пихолдер
Nice
Supper fun an challenging, I admit I've only scratched the surface of what I can do in this game but I love the whole 1984 style of story here.
At first glance, after hearing the game's concept, you'll be filled with excitement because it's a new and unusual idea: you're the owner of a residential building and you rent it to citizens, but you have to spy on them to provide information to the government because the country is a repressive dictatorship. You place cameras in the tenants' rooms, enter their apartments, and search them when they leave, looking for any suspicious activity. However, the downside of the game is the restrictions imposed on you and the lack of freedom. You have to be given a task every day, and if you don't complete it within the time limit, you might be arrested. This is why I quit playing. While the concept is fun at first, as you progress and play for an hour or two, you'll get bored. One building, installing cameras, spying on the tenants – it's honestly tedious, and I don't recommend it.
Irritating
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