The daily newspaper filled with propaganda and the all-seeing eye you have over the apartment building further enhances the daunting feeling that Big Brother is always watching. The dark, bleak and almost colourless environment adds to the feeling of a world devoid of happiness, freedom, and hope. All characters are depicted in solely black, reminding us of the style seen in Limbo. The aesthetics of the game accurately correlate with the overall atmosphere. A quick go is out of the question when you can only auto-save. Not being able to save whenever you please can be frustrating when dying means losing progress, but above all it limits players easily picking up the game. We quickly discovered how deviously difficult the game gets without an option to save manually, however, as you could face a death penalty for as little as writing the wrong number on a report. Beholder auto-saves after every quest, allowing you to pick up from your last save and change your choices in order to attain a better outcome. If the State deems you a rebellious criminal, you will get arrested and killed, thus ending the game. If you have thrown all empathy overboard, you can even frame the mother of your children to gain reputation with the Motherland. The State will provide you with one or two primary tasks, but tenants or your family may have requests for you as well. The phone in your office is in direct contact with the State, who will contact you with tasks such as profiling, spying, or removing tenants. Your office also allows you to profile and report tenants and store files with any and all evidence you have against them. With laws getting extremely strict (for example, eating an apple is forbidden and at one point even owning a rubber duckie is a serious offence), it is only a matter of time before every person is considered a criminal.įrom the office in your basement, you can closely monitor all of the apartments you have installed cameras in.
Your superiors demand you keep track of all your tenants in order to scope out the rebels opposing the State.
Your job is to maintain and restore the complex, but it is quickly revealed that being a landlord isn't your only job.Īfter moving in, you are immediately tasked with installing a camera in the apartment of one of your tenants in order to spy on them, but it doesn't end there. You, your wife, your son, and your daughter move in to the basement of the complex, comprising of six apartments in total. Laws are oppressive and privacy is dead, and after the previous landlord of an apartment building gets 'disposed of', the State appoints you as the new manager. Beholder is a story-driven game, set in a grim, dystopian future where a totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and public life.
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