Beholder
A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are a State-installed manager of an apartment house. The State requires…
Beholder is an adventure developed by Warm Lamp Games, released 9 November 2016 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac. It currently starts at $1.11 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Beholder is
Beholder is an adventure game developed by Warm Lamp Games and released in 2016. It was published by Alawar Entertainment. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Beholder is a adventure video game about life in a totalitarian police state, in which privacy does not exist: everything is controlled by the state. The game was developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment on November 9, 2016. The game is supported on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPadOS and iOS.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 60 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Beholder holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 128 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 21 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.11, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.05 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2.00GHz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 600M / ATI Radeon HD 5450 (1GB). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.11 at Fanatical, 92% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Beholder launched on 9 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV and Titanfall 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Beholder yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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