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Beholder
Beholder suits players drawn to moral dilemmas, tenant surveillance, and choices that shape a branching story. The current price at 
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01About Beholder
As a state-appointed landlord in a totalitarian society, you spy on tenants, search their apartments, and report possible violations. You must also choose whether to obey the regime or protect people, while attending to your own family's needs. Your decisions shape the story and lead to different endings. Steam player rating: 91% positive from 23,340 reviews. Confirmed interface languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Russian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, Dutch, Turkish, and Korean.
Credits
Developer
Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
Publisher
Alawar
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$0.002024-11-21 · Epic Game StoreBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Show 11 more languages
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Language
The Steam PC version supports multiple interface languages; confirmed options appear under {supportedLanguages}. Full audio and subtitles are listed for English and Simplified Chinese.
Play mode
Single-player is listed for Steam PC. Controller support is not specified.
03Frequently asked questions
What is Beholder about?
You manage an apartment building for a totalitarian state, spying on tenants and reporting possible violations.
Do choices affect the story?
Your decisions affect the story and can lead to several different endings.
What kinds of dilemmas will I face?
You can protect tenants, report them, or blackmail them, while also dealing with your family's needs.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
Have you ever wanted to set up hidden cameras in the girls locker room when you were in high school? Of course you did. We all did. Well, you can't do that in Beholder, and even if you could, it wouldn't be very sexy since every character is a black amporphous blob. Beholder puts you in the role of a landlord hired by the state (that seems to resemble Russia an awful lot, which is fine, it's fiction) that tasks you with spying on your tenants, keeping tabs on them, making note of suspicious things they do, characteristics, laws they may be breaking, etc, and then reporting them to the state to (probably) be taken away somewhere and locked away or mysteriously committing suicide. I don't know, I haven't gotten that far yet. I put off getting this game for a while. The graphics put me off, despite not being a big graphics ♥♥♥♥♥. I bought a bunch of games over the past few weeks, and refunded them several times over until I eventually got to another game and this one as the ones at the top of my list. And I just have to say, while I'm glad I didn't get it sooner (because it wouldn't be new to me right now) I am glad I got it now. This game is fantastic. These days most video games are all the same, and whenever something new comes along, it's always nice to see. Like how we all went mad when the first few survival craft games came out, that is, until every single early access game became that and watered down the genre to the point it feels like any other. Beholder does not. Feel like any other genre, that is. The closest I could compare it to would be an adventure/point and click game, but that wouldn't be accurate. For starters, you can use a controller, and you can walk around. I honestly don't know what genre this would fall under, nor can I explain it good enough to tell you what you're in for, so I will just tell you what I have done so far in the game. I road a train into town where I was greeted by who I believe is the building owner. He asked me if I have ever run an apartment building before (I said "No (Play tutorial). I was then tasked with setting up surveilence cameras around the building, but first I had to get them out of my new desk drawer. After I set up the cameras, the man asks me to follow him upstairs, which I do, where he gives me a key, and privately tells me it will open any apartment in the building. He said to make sure they're not home when I enter, because "Citizens think their private lives are their business" (This is one of several great lines in the small amount of time I've played) and then you're left on your own to figure things out. I definitely recommend this game, if for no other reason than the fact that it's unlike anything you've played before. It's not an FPS, MMO, survival game, crafting game, strategy game, city builder. open world, RPG... it's nothing you've ever played, and for that reason alone (plus the fact that it's a quality game with good writing, excellent ambiance, and a whole Kim Kardashian sized butt load of charm) it's wroth the measly 9.99 they're asking for. This game is worth at least twice that. God bless Steam and their refund policy, if not for that, I may not have ever had bought this awesome game (the other was Darkest Dungeon, another fantastic game I probably never would have bought if not for Steam refunds).Show moreShow less
2.5 hours at review748 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
THIS REVIEW WAS MADE BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE DLC**** I completed all the achievements and done all the stuff. I would like to praise the art, it's really great. I want another game from Warp Lamp done just like that, that's gonna be insta buy for me. I want to talk about the lack of testing at this game. It seems like the testers didn't even play the game or just said: Not gonna work on that. There is a stage at the game when your daughter gets ill and you gotta buy an aspirin for her. Then she needs special antibiotics for 20 000 and your son needs 15 000 for university. After you do that your daughter needs another special drug for 15 000, on top of that your wife wants like 2 000 to buy groceries and stuff. Ridiculous ammounts that aren't possible to achieve. But you can do that just by simply letting the quests be, because you are the one who collects quests and if you simply don't talk to your wife about your daughter's illness, she simply isn't ill. That also applies to your son's university fee and all the other quests that function like that, you can ignore your wife even before your daughter need that aspirin. So you can wait to the near end of the game where you receive tons of money. The key to get through these stages is just to ignore your family. It just ruins the whole immersion of the game, I would have no problem if they have given you a limited time to talk with your wife/son about that problem with need of lower prices, or they should atleast give you more quests to get that money. Nothing, it's just lacking any proper testing. And that's not all, if your family dies. NPCs still mention your family, offering quests that earn you money- to save your family. You agree because of your family. BUT YOU HAVE NO FAMILY. That's just sad. These are really big problems. I love the game, the good ending is absolutely adorable, music is great, quests are good with a lot of endings, and the artstyle.... But I will still give the game a NO. Please guys, if you test your game, test it right and spend your time doing that and repairing that game. TL;DR Great concept, fantastic art, great music, lack of testing which leads to messing the whole game up. Update: Remembered about more spicy stuff. There is sometimes a case when a tenant wants to kill you.. How does he do that? You come to him, talk, he kills you, if you don't talk to him, he doesn't. Some woman wants to offer you a tea that's poisoned to kill you. It goes like this: She offers you a delicious tea, you can say yes or no. I said yes (achievement for that). Then the dialogue continues, she says something like: Hehe you Dumbo, that was poisoned you lil ♥♥♥♥, git gud. After that the animation of you drinking the tea and dying starts.. That was really weird and plainly just dumb, someone who tested this must've seen that it's damn stupid.Show moreShow less
13.6 hours at review245 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Day 1: Move into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ basement apartment, decide I'm just gonna do my job a la Papers Please Day 2: Son wants some expensive books for college. The nice german guy upstairs was more than willing to provide Day 3: Spot German dude breaking the apple ordinance laws, which is punishable by gulag. He was nice, I let it slide. Day 4: Sketchy Irish guy shows up trying to sell stolen contraband canned fish that stink like actual ♥♥♥♥. I send officers to send him to gulag Day 5: Fatass doctor moves in, conveniently my daughter gets deathly ill at the same time Day 6: Buy doctor a hooker so he'll help my daughter, need 10,000 for medicine Day 9: Saved almost enough money, but catch doctor reading a medical book. Books are illegal. Doctor goes to gulag Day 10: Daughter dies Day 11: Son gets kicked out of university for not going to class Day 12: University debt collectors kick the ♥♥♥♥ out of me in an alley, take their payment Day 15: Son wants to go to new university out of country, would cost 10,000. Day 19: Have evicted several nice old ladies and stolen enough ♥♥♥♥ to have almost enough money Day 20: Son runs off since I only raised 9,800. I catch my wife in bed.....with a book. Books are illegal. She should go to gulag Day 21: Wife stays since I'm feeling nice instead of actual Stalin. Day 22: Reports that my son attempted to pull of the Pacific Standard Heist solo and got shot in the face. Get charged 5,000 for association, 1,000 for funeral. Day 23: Wife asks me to buy groceries, send her to gulag instead. Day 24: Catch like four people reading, entire house looks like a DEA raid Day 25: Wife's funeral bill comes in. Can't afford it, so get sent to gulag. Everyone goes to gulag in the end.Show moreShow less
2 hours at review286 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Beholder is an interesting game that pretends to be more than it is. A simple gimmick of spying on people and surveillance, but with a minimum of actual interaction to go with it. After the first few hours, most of the game is about finding out what the developers planned for you to do and then following the story they wanted to tell you. If you wanted to just spy on people and have a few renters to keep an eye on, you're in the wrong place. Mostly, Beholder tells you a story. And this story demands that you are a dou-che to everyone and extort them until they have no money left to give you before forcibly evicting them so you can steal whats left of their stuff and pawn it for spare cash. If you do not do this, you will either be given a game over or your family will die. Multiple times at that. In my one playthrough so far my son has died three times and my wife twice, forcing me to pay for five funerals for two dead family members. Through all this, people still threaten me with hurting my family which already died, and there is a good chance that if I don't go along with it they will dig up the body just so they can kill it again and force me to pay for another funeral. There is not a lot of choice to be had, there are a few stories, and you have to just follow them. Some stories appear to have multiple paths, but in the end only a few seem to have any effect on others at all. Coupled by a world that appears to be intended seriously but comes off as a satirical joke where people try to one up eachother on cynicism, dialogue options being vague ("Tell me" -200 reputation- Could mean threatening them, right? Nope. It's asking nicely.) and the fact that you don't really get to do that much for most of the time except wait for people to leave so you can rummage through their stuff makes this more suited to something you can watch someone else play rather than something you can play yourself. Aside from all this, I've found there to be some serious issues with Beholder, family members dying multiple times, the game not recognizing them as dead, the complete lack of manual saving, barely functional tutorial that doesn't even explain the basics right and very harsh penalties on what is essentially trial and error gameplay makes for a sadly unsatisfying experience where I found myself deciding that I was done and got the good ending after a bomb killed everyone in the building. Graphics are simple, but they are pretty good at what they do. Renters are different enough to distinguish between them and the music works well for most of the game. I don't think it was entirely necessary to hear the basement stove turned on nearly all the time though. There are good things to be had in Beholder, but it feels very much like they had a story and a single game mechanic planned, and then just jammed them together hoping it would work. It doesn't, or not very well at least. The start of the game is fairly well worked out and entertaining, but then after that it mainly becomes a hunt for finding the right thing or dialogue you're expected to find while at the same time bringing in renters just to extort them for money. A routine that encourages you to not care about any of your renters, your family, or the game as a whole. And all throughout this everyone will stress how everything is bad without ever having anything good happen. The game claims your choices have consequences, but the only choices and consequences are "Do as we intended for you to do or you and/or your family will die" with nearly no room for error. Even if you accept the loss of one or two family members you do not have many meaningful choices, seemingly by design. Take that as you will, but I can not in good conscience recommend it to anyone but those who are the most hyped about spying on people while also being a fan of passive gameplay.Show moreShow less
5.9 hours at review187 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
- Annoying, nagging wife wants to spend my hard-earned government money on stupid, trivial things every freaken hour. - What's a humble family man to do? - Plant illegal items under her mattress. - Report her to the government. - Front row seat to her being dragged away crying in handcuffs and thrown into a police van. - Happily sit in wonderful silence with my money.Show moreShow less
11.4 hours at review158 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I hated to love so much about this game. So much great stuff, I got really hooked with the duality of the situation as well as the strategical elements. It looked perfect at the start. With a brilliant story and art, this game didn’t need anything else to be a success… except that someone had the brilliant idea to make the whole game about “beating the clock”. I know some people are going to say: “So what, I like the challenge.” but some other people, like me, find this kind of game challenge the cheapest and most unsatisfying of them all. Much like jumping platforms. A game this beautiful deserves to be appreciated, then absorbed while people play with it, not to be rushed through because there’s a clock ticking. So if you like to fight the clock go forward, but if like me you don’t, stay away because that’s the core of this game’s gameplay.Show moreShow less
5.6 hours at review149 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
If the game is in a language other than English, do following: 1: start the game 2: when main menu pops up, click the 2nd from top 3: 5th from top, click the arrow to the left/right until it says English 4: in the bottom of page, press the left buttonShow moreShow less
0.6 hours at review155 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Kinda nice idea to mix 'This War is Mine' & 'Papers, Please' into a anti-humanist dystopian time-management strategy blend, with the player being responsible (no choice here, no halftones) for spying, blackmailing & ruining people's lives to survive. Sadly, its scripted timer-based gameplay & clunky UI spoil the experience badly. I quickly got tired of the process - the character moves slowly, time flies by (almost like in real life except fast lol) & the clock doesn't stop even while you're reading your log & other documents; to move somewhere you must click strictly on the floor decks, not walls, so you have to aim every time (at the beginning I even had troubles figuring out how to walk), the doors are very narrow - aim at them again; there are no action sequences allowed, well-timed manual clicks only; the mouse scrolling on pushbutton is INVERTED, no screen edge sensivity (what kind of devilish mindf**kery is that?!)... And afterall it's just a storyline of certain quests you need to grind through N times to memorize the successful action patterns, no replay value at all, in fact I doubt I'll play it even once.Show moreShow less
7.1 hours at review149 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you guys. So I just bought this game off the Humble Indie Bundle, and the artwork kinda managed to pull me in immediately. I didn't read any reviews, not even the steam store description. I decided to just boot it up and see what it's about. What followed was a complete emotional rollercoaster. The game started off well enough, I went into my usual routine of poking at the gameplay mechanics to see what my options are, and maximizing my profits, all the while still trying to be the good guy as much as possible. I thought I was doing pretty well, some fine gentleman was being manipulated and I decided to help him. My son needed a lot of money for school but I got by. Even when my daughter got sick, I had already managed to find a doctor beforehand to help her. And then he died. Murdered. What followed was a cruel torment. I started doing everything I could for money. I stopped paying bills. I stole from my tenants. But it was never enough. A couple of hours later I was just completely engrossed in the game. My heart broke a little every time I passed by my coughing little daughter. I resented the woman who murdered the doctor, who was still living with us because I had sold any evidence I had against her earlier. I saw the money leaving me as fast as I could gather it, and all that time the only thing I could think of was how to save my little girl. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you guys.Show moreShow less
5 hours at review136 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Could have been so much more, than it is. Gameplay is much less awesome as the premise might sound. By spying on tenants gameplaywise it means - install cameras and wait till they do something illegal so you can click an icon there. Also wait till they leave so you can check every single item in their flat, and don't forget to click on them, because that illegal book has a slightly different icon than the regular good books, and click on the text itself to confirm you got that this is an illegal book. That of course, if you will be able to live through a chore that your family provides you. Buying stuff, searching all around for missing books and dolls, asking for a doctor and nonstop mini-quest that has nothing to do with actual spying but they take away time and I found myself doing them 80% of my time rather than the spying quests. And writing of dialogues is not very good, they go on and on without any substance. Like there was a guy who was supposed to travel abroad, and I thought there is something to him, but my other quests were in the way of me actually getting to know what the hell might be there with him. Just had no time to get to him while micromanaging other stuff. Cool idea, but poor execution. I would prefer to more in-depth spying and less day to day management of family problems and nonsense tasks like finding a girlfriend for a new tenant.Show moreShow less
2.7 hours at review127 people found this helpful
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