Comparison

Beholder vs Nothing to Declare

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

Nothing to Declare

Experience the daily work of EU Customs Administrations in this engaging game. Interrogate suspicious passengers, inspect cargo at the port, and examine packages to ensure legitimate trade and protect citizens. Learn about customs procedures through interactive gameplay.

Highlights
  • Airport passenger interrogation
  • Port cargo inspection via X-ray
  • Post sorting facility package examination
  • Utilize sniffer dogs
  • Analyze bills of lading
  • Follow international intelligence reports
Features
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On the 50th Anniversary of the EU Customs Union, the Malta Customs Administration proudly presents ‘Nothing to Declare’ video game to help you understand and appreciate the daily work carried out by the EU Customs Administrations to promote legitimate trade while protecting EU citizens. The game takes place in 3 locations, the Airport, the Freeport, and the Post Sorting Facility. You play as a new recruit in the Customs team mentored by Reggie, your boss. Shared international intelligence will help you identify and interrogate suspicious inbound passengers. Your job is to stop and interrogate passengers whose appearance matches those mentioned in the daily intel report, who exit the airport through the wrong doors, carrying pets, or who act suspiciously during interrogation. Take your time with each passenger, there is no room for mistakes! Work at the Port never ends. A continuous stream of trucks flows through the state of art fixed deep X-Ray head. Time is of the essence so make sure to compare the bill of lading document details like container identifiers, supplier names, and the list of declared goods with the items you see in the container. You’ll be surprised by what some shippers have in store for you! An ever-increasing number of packets are shipped to the island every year. Sniffer dogs to the rescue. You have to inspect all suspicious packages - those singled out by the sniffer dogs, coming from outside of the EU, or with a particularly low declaration value. Don’t worry if this feels too overwhelming, Reggie and European-wide intelligence will help you along the way.

Screenshots

Beholder4 screens
Nothing to Declare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nothing to Declare at Free against Beholder's $4.99. Nothing to Declare also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Beholder's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 71). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Nothing to Declare is free to download; Beholder costs $4.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nothing to Declare asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beholder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 71, 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 58% of Nothing to Declare's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Nothing to Declare every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Beholder versus Nothing to Declare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholderNothing to Declare
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better3.7 (71 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better58.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.7K — better71
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size770 MB490 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCM Games OUFlying Squirrel Games Malta Ltd.

Customer experience

Beholder

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

Nothing to Declare

All ratings62 ratings
Positive59.7%
Neutral14.5%
Negative25.8%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive58.1%
Neutral21.0%
Negative21.0%

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

Nothing to Declare

From 71 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 💡 Unique concept
  • ✨ Good simulation of customs officer role
  • 🎨 Nice graphics
  • 🚫 No ads or minimal ads

Room to improve

  • 📉 Too short / ends quickly
  • 🤔 Mechanics too complex or confusing
  • 🤷 Unclear instructions or expectations
  • 👀 Hard to see items in X-rays/luggage
  • 😩 Repetitive gameplay

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

Nothing to Declare

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game freezes frequently
  • Truck levels have bugs / false errors
  • Issues with specific levels (e.g., Level 16 impossible)
  • Game glitches out
  • Passenger responses not registering, requiring restart
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  • Trucks with illegal items not showing up but flagged as errors
  • Freezing when interrogating about wrong channel
  • False warnings for trucks from non-high-risk countries

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add endless mode
  • Add more levels or continuation
  • Add translation for Portuguese
  • Improve clarity of instructions and illustrations
  • Add more detail to intel notebook
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  • Make face expressions more useful
  • Add more stages or scenarios
  • Make interrogation process quicker
  • Add in-game purchase for more content

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
None

Nothing to Declare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Nothing to Declare free?
Nothing to Declare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beholder or Nothing to Declare?
Beholder is rated higher. Beholder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Nothing to Declare averages 3.7 from 71 ratings.
Do Beholder or Nothing to Declare have ads?
Neither Beholder nor Nothing to Declare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beholder or Nothing to Declare?
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, and Nothing to Declare every 10 days. Most recently, Beholder was updated on October 21, 2026 and Nothing to Declare on October 23, 2026.

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