Lifeline vs Beholder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifeline
Guide a lost adventurer through a frozen wasteland by making critical choices. Your decisions shape the narrative and determine their survival and identity. Experience a gripping story with real-time notifications and multiple branching paths.
- Interactive narrative choices
- Real-time notifications
- Branching story paths
- Character survival
- Identity discovery
- Multiple playthroughs
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Alone in a frozen wasteland with no memory of how he got there, a lost adventurer’s only hope is his last line of communication – to YOU! Guide him to safety and help him find his identity in this gripping story of survival. Your choices shape the story as you play! 3 Minute Games has partnered with Eipix Entertainment for the next installment of the critically-acclaimed Lifeline series. Lifeline: Whiteout introduces a brand new character, V. Adams! Play on the go with real-time notifications sent to your device or check in with V. Adams throughout your day – waiting for the bus, eating lunch, before bed! Decisions can have a profound effect. Finish the game and then play again to discover a whole new story when you make different choices. WATCH US: http://www.youtube.com/c/LifelineGame Praise for Lifeline: “This is the best game on the Apple Watch.” – Time.com “I’ve played many games that I find engrossing, but Lifeline may be one of the first that changed the way I thought about my daily routine, which leapt off the screen and became a part of my lived experience.” - Eli Cymet, Gamezebo “For a few brief hours I cared – really cared – about the fate of a completely fictional character. I don’t think any other game I’ve played has made me feel that way before.” - Matt Thrower, PocketGamer
Beholder
In a totalitarian state, you manage an apartment building while secretly spying on tenants. Your choices impact their lives and the unfolding story, leading to multiple endings. Explore a grim future where privacy is a luxury and every decision has consequences.
- Moral choice-driven narrative
- Tenant surveillance and profiling
- Multiple story endings
- Character personality development
- Apartment management simulation
- Additional story content available
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Welcome to a grim dystopian future. 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. The State has appointed you to SPY ON YOUR TENANTS! 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. Beholder is all about making choices - choices that matter! What will you do with the information you collect? Will you report the suspicious activities of a father and orphan his children? Or will you withhold the details about his illegal activities and give him a chance to make things right? You may also choose to blackmail him to acquire the money your family desperately needs. Features: - You decide what happens: Every decision you make affects the way the story unfolds. - People aren't just objects: Each character you meet will have a thoroughly developed personality with his or her own past and present. - No decision is easy: If you are given the power to destroy the privacy of another person, should you? Or should you treat those on which you are spying the way they deserve? - You don't know where you'll end up: "Beholder" is a game of multiple endings. "Blissful Sleep" additional story is already available!** The Ministry of Introductions is honored to introduce Hector, the ex-landlord succeeded by Carl Shteyn. The time has come to tell the stories of: - the one who has fallen a victim to a horrifying mistake, and is now desperately seeking for salvation; - the ones who broke the law to find happiness and are now facing the consequences; - the one who risked his life for the State but has been left behind; - the one who had everything but lost it all; - the one who mews! Return to Krushvice 6 and serve the State and Wise Leader well! ** Available through in-app purchase • 3D Touch. Force touch will open the characters interaction menu. • iCloud. Synchronize your game across all your devices. • iMessage Stickers. Owning Beholder gives access to free pack of stickers. Meet other Beholder fans at: https://beholder-game.com https://www.facebook.com/BeholderGame https://twitter.com/Beholder_Game
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lifeline at none against Beholder's 1. Lifeline also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 69%) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). Beholder's advantage is chart position (#106 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Lifeline costs $2.99 and Beholder $4.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lifeline asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Lifeline against 4.8 for Beholder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.5K and 1.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Lifeline's written reviews are positive against 69% of Beholder's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Lifeline | Beholder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.5K ratings) | 4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews — better | 69.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 1.7K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #106 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 770 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 3 Minute Games, Inc. | CM Games OU |
Customer experience
Lifeline
Beholder
User reviews
Lifeline
From 4.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Captivating story
- 👍 Immersive experience
- 🤖 Interesting exploration of human vs. machine
- 🐶 Emotional connection to characters
- 💡 Innovative text-based gameplay
Room to improve
- 🕰️ Slow pacing with long wait times
- 🤔 Illusion of choice, linear story
- 🤯 Frustrating when protagonist makes poor decisions
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
Beholder
From 1.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game mechanics
- 🚀 Engaging and addictive gameplay
- 💡 Interesting moral dilemmas
- 🎨 Excellent visuals and atmosphere
- 🕹️ Unique and challenging gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay
- 💰 High price for the content
- 🕹️ Difficult and unforgiving at times
- 🔍 Limited replayability
Bugs and requests
Lifeline
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game freezing or crashing on certain devices
- Notifications not working as expected
Requested features
3 requests- More branching storylines and endings
- Ability to skip or speed up waiting periods
- Improved accessibility for screen readers
Beholder
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezing during tutorial or conversations
- Inability to progress past certain points
- Inconsistent language settings
- Tenants not appearing as expected
Requested features
5 requests- More randomized events and content
- Additional locations and apartments to manage
- Ability to delete save files
- Improved cloud save functionality
- Optimization for newer devices
In-app purchases
Lifeline
No in-app purchases
Beholder
- Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
Questions
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