Comparison

Beholder vs Home Behind

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Moral choice-driven narrative
  • Tenant surveillance and profiling
  • Multiple story endings
  • Character personality development
  • Apartment management simulation
  • Additional story content available
Features
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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

About

Home Behind

Embark on a perilous journey as a refugee fleeing war-torn lands. Manage survival needs like hunger and sickness while navigating random events and combat. Craft gear, cook food, and fight enemies to reach safety and reunite with your family.

Highlights
  • Randomly generated events
  • Survival resource management
  • 15 unlockable jobs
  • Crafting and upgrading gear
  • Combat against enemies and bosses
  • Exploration and item collection
Features
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In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe? The thoughts of civil war had been brewing in your homeland for years, and the violence has finally erupted. In the chaos, your village was burned to the ground, and your daughter disappeared. When faced with death, you chose to survive and to overcome the difficulties of disease, war, and famine. Can you make it long enough to be reunited with your daughter? -All events and experiences you come across are randomly generated, so no play through is exactly the same! -Keep track of your mood, nutrition, and water levels while avoiding terrible diseases! -Take on the ultimate struggle of survival as your travel 1500 kilometers to safety. -Unlock all 15 jobs, each with their own special starting skills, items and rewards. -Experience tons of random events both in the outside world and indoors, and be the master of your destiny. -Survive both day and night, as well as random weather events. -Collect hundreds of items and craft your own weapons and armor. -Explore the limits of crafting and upgrading to forge the strongest gear. -Try loads of food to stay alive and cook your own meals Lizards Insects Braised beef. -Explore a world inspired by real events and real stories. -Fight a wide range of enemies, including wild beasts and rebel soldiers. Can you survive attacks from all your enemies and extremely difficult bosses?

Screenshots

Beholder4 screens
Home Behind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Home Behind at fortnightly against Beholder's every 2 months. Home Behind also leads on price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). Beholder's advantage is chart position (#82 vs unranked) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 288). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Beholder costs $4.99 and Home Behind $2.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Home Behind sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beholder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 288, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Beholder's written reviews are positive against 62% of Home Behind's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Home Behind fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Beholder versus Home Behind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholderHome Behind
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better4.7 (288 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better62.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.7K — better288
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#82 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size770 MB371 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperCM Games OUCoconut Island Games Limited

Customer experience

Beholder

All ratings1,654 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews455 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral11.2%
Negative19.6%

Home Behind

All ratings285 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive62.4%
Neutral11.8%
Negative25.9%

User reviews

Beholder

From 1.7K App Store ratings

What 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

Home Behind

From 288 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging storyline and emotional impact
  • 👍 Unique and interesting gameplay
  • 👍 Good value for price
  • 👍 Educational and thought-provoking
  • 👍 High replayability (for some)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Unintuitive UI/UX
  • 🐛 Repetitive gameplay loop
  • 🐛 Difficulty spikes and unfair deaths
  • 🐛 Lack of save function (early versions)

Bugs and requests

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

Home Behind

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Purchase restoration failures
  • Game crashes on startup/loading
  • UI overlaps (inventory/skills)
  • Text sometimes appears in Chinese (in English mode)
  • In-game purchases not working/initializing
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  • Game not starting after intro
  • Black screen after intro with music playing
  • Dialogue sometimes switches languages
  • Shards/postcards not increasing stats
  • Progress not saving correctly
  • Game not working after iOS 12 update
  • Buttons showing 'new label'
  • Game not opening
  • Requires internet connection
  • Crash during combat/when fighting wolves
  • Endless mode stuck at 0%
  • DLC not unlocking after purchase
  • Inconsistent language support after updates
  • Game not compatible with newer iPhones/iOS versions
  • Ads causing game to freeze

Requested features

14 requests
  • New maps/levels
  • Sequel (Home Behind 2)
  • More character variety/unlocks
  • Co-op/team play option
  • Female character option
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  • More intuitive crafting/skill system
  • Adjustable difficulty
  • More diverse random events
  • Option to skip intro cutscenes
  • Separate music and sound effect volume controls
  • Save game function (for earlier versions)
  • Better inventory management
  • More colorful scenery
  • Aesthetics/skins for unlock

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
7 purchases

Home Behind

One-time7
  • 退伍軍人$1.99
  • 飼養員$1.99
  • 額外負重$1.99
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  • Endless Mode DLC$1.99
  • 手工藝人$2.99
  • 郵差$2.99
  • 科学家$4.99

Questions

Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Home Behind free?
Home Behind costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beholder or Home Behind?
Beholder is rated higher. Beholder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Home Behind averages 4.7 from 288 ratings.
Do Beholder or Home Behind have ads?
Neither Beholder nor Home Behind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beholder or Home Behind?
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, and Home Behind fortnightly. Most recently, Beholder was updated on October 26, 2026 and Home Behind on October 26, 2026.

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