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You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Beholder is a dystopian , choices matter and political sim game
developed by Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
and published by Alawar.
Released on November 09th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 14 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Turkish and Korean.
It has received 27,747 reviews of which 25,444 were positive and 2,303 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 0.82€ on Steam with a 94% discount, but you can find it for 0.41€ on K4G.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2.00GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 600M / ATI Radeon HD 5450 (1GB)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1600 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: MacOSX 10.10 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core i5 – 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB
- Storage: 1600 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or more
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 Gb
- Storage: 1600 MB available space
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Beholder is a masterpiece. Tons of difficult choices, and a great world that has you feeling immersed the whole time. You play as Carl Stein, a man in his mid 40s who has a wife, daughter and teenage son. You are tasked with being the landlord, and beholder of an apartment building. The state gives you constant tasks for you to complete, but so does your family, tenants, and various other third parties. I've truly never played a game that's made me feel like Beholder has. The game has a perfect balance of keeping you busy, but not busy enough to notice what's going on around you. If you haven't played it, please do. It goes on sale, but it's worth the full price.
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The Beholder is a hidden gem of a game. This game isn't obscure by any means but you really never hear about this game anymore, Except for its heyday when it first came out. To be honest I really didn't know what to expect booting this game up for the first time. I just though I'd get it because it was 83 cents and had spare change. I'll be talking about the base game and the DLC separately despite them being pretty similar with a few distinct differences. The base game of Beholder starts you out as a landlord working for a corrupt fictional country. And you the player, Play as the titular Beholder, Carl, A landlord/security guard. Your job is to steal, bribe, blackmail, spy, and report tenants to make money and do the tasks the ministry gives you, All while trying to keep your family alive. An important thing to note about this game is the time limits. Most tasks you can do give you a certain amount of in game hours to complete. This game does also have a clock for the in game days but it doesn't seem to have a set amount of days until you get an ending, though the ministry will call you automatically after a while if you don't ask for a new task. You can at least pause time to think through your strategy. All in all its not as stressful as some other games but I can see this being a deal breaker for some people. I truly do believe making over the hurdle of the stress really opens the other aspects of the game. The quests and tenants you can choose to house are really good. Each with different personalities, connections, and circumstances. One of the early quests is to evict the Schimmers by any means possible so you could wait for a new law saying reading is illegal and catch them with hidden cameras, or plant evidence in their apartment. Alternatively you can confront them directly and try to help them escape the country either by leveraging your connection to a employee who works at a cargo ship and smuggle them. Or try to retrieve the lost paperwork from a worker at the archives. all of the different ways you can solve the quests really impressed me. And while most of the ways involve optional tenants you may or may not have living in you apartment. You can usually find a contraband smuggler ever day with the items you need, For a hefty price. Once beating the game I feel like there are two ways a player will approach a replay through: Excited and try to optimize how many tasks and money you can complete, while finding more secrets of the game. Or feel like the game becomes repetitive doing the same tasks again. I personally find trying to make the most amount of money possible very fun because trust me you need a lot of money to get some of the endings. If you liked something like Pikmin 1 or 3 I think this game would really click for you! To beat the game once it takes around 6 hours so you don't have to redo an insane amount on a replay. If you don't plan to replay the game then I'd recommend getting the game on sale. Me personally i went through the main campaign 4 times to get all the endings and achievements. As for the DLC: Blissful Sleep you play as Hector the previous landlord and you have 2 weeks to live because the state incorrectly labeled your file as 85 years old. Which in accordance with the new laws Anyone over the age of 85 will be killed in two weeks. The game play is much the same as before, But I find seeing how the first tenants you knew from the base game get expanded as they had a great relationship with hector and even had a different family. The lore of the entire country and people are expanded a lot. The DLC is harder then the base game but its nothing too crazy. I do feel like in general the DLC has less ways you can solve quests in the game its more linear. But i think that's because the DLC has a two week limit whereas the base game usually takes around 25 to 30 days. As for the length its around 4 hours long at around the same quality of the normal game. I think as a package the Beholder, DLC or not is a really solid game with a lot of charm and a unique setting. This game won't appeal to everyone and that's fine. But i think for the people who will like this game, this is pretty underrated! My final verdict is 8.8 out of 10. Thank you for reading.
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this is the most tragic game i've ever played in my entire life in the span of 2 hours - my daughter dies because healthcare is expensive - ive reported a few people and watched their ass get beat by police - my son decided to rob a bank and that ended up sending me to the main menu truly a beautiful game
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This game is successful with giving one strong emotion: HOPELESS DESPAIR . You will feel sadness and sorrow with every decision you make, and even if you are trying to be kind, the game will break you in every imaginable way. Trying to be on people's side? Well, then your family will die. There is no way to remain the observer: you will break people's lives. You will disappoint your family. The government will not care about your fate. To earn a good ending, you'll need to steal, snitch and kill. There is no "good" path here. Since this game is made by Russian developers, I can assure you: they knew where to take inspiration from, and it was not just reading Orwell. I don't get the hate from my fellow Ukrainians here: the game delivers the message . In the best way possible. The atmosphere is unique and heavy. What about gameplay? Essentially, the game is a series of quests without any hand-holding. 1. The quests are connected to various characters. 2. The quests are limited by time. 3. There are events that are happening on two "timelines": based on your current progress and based on current date. 4. There is total freedom with how you build your relationship with characters. With these points, you will constantly shoot yourself in the leg: you might be too fast with your progression, and will fail a quest because the next point will be triggered too late in the game; you might be too slow and will miss the opportunity and would not even realize what was missing; you will not have a character that is needed for a completion of the quest; etc. The game won't tell you what's wrong. Sometimes it's the not-so-obvious dialogue line, sometimes you have to steal, sometimes you have to blackmail, sometimes you have to be a friend, but most often you have already failed something without even knowing it. The game is flexible and it will allow you to fail. This game design is clear: to "beat" the game you have to play it tens of times. You have to know the game first. And I was not successful with it: I found myself rather confused with some quests while being pressured by time, reputation and money. I have used guidelines to understand what I was missing, but even then you have to be careful with the pace of the game. Finally, after seeking help from online resources, I know how to actually play the game more efficiently, but it has also killed the joy, so... I would recommend taking this game slowly . It will be punishing, confusing and difficult. If you are okay with replaying the game again and again without getting bored - this would be definitely for you. While I have spoiled 1st game in the series, I would have another look on Beholder 2 later with the right expectations in mind.
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Short, fun, but multiple plays needed for the 100%. Though what was satire when it released now looks like it's some kind of future prediction. The real crime of this game is the lack of a manual save. English translation contains some minor errors, but nothing gamebreaking.
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Beholder is currently priced at 0.82€ on Steam.
Beholder is currently available at a 94% discount. You can purchase it for 0.82€ on Steam.
Beholder received 25,444 positive votes out of a total of 27,747 achieving a rating of 8.98.
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Beholder was developed by Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) and published by Alawar.
Beholder is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Beholder is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Beholder is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Beholder is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Beholder. Explore additional content available for Beholder on Steam.
Beholder does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Beholder does not support Steam Remote Play.
Beholder is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
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09 Nov 2016
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