Beholder vs Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Observe strangers through surveillance cameras and analyze their lives. Decide whether to interfere with their privacy for personal gain or adhere to the rules of a shadowy club. This unique simulation game challenges your moral compass.
- Observe strangers via surveillance cameras
- Analyze obtained information
- Interact with subjects (feeding)
- Moral decision-making
- In-game PC for multitasking
- Unique narrative simulation
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You are invited to join “The Primate Observation Club”, where you will observe the lives of caged monkeys and carefully analyze the information obtained. GLOSSARY OF TERMS: THE PRIMATE OBSERVATION CLUB: a shadowy group that observes other people through surveillance cameras and compromised webcams. YOU: the newest member of the CLUB, tired of your run-down apartment, dull existence and boring job. MONKEYS: dozens of strangers who have fallen prey to your voyeurism. PRIVACY: Something that the monkeys think they have. PC (PERSONAL COMPUTER): Yep, we put a PC in your game that’s on your device so that you can work on a PC while you’re playing the game that’s on your device! FEEDING THE MONKEYS: Interacting or interfering with the subjects in any way. Feeding the monkeys is strictly prohibited. Oddly enough, club members keep feeding the monkeys as though they just can’t abide by this very simple rule! How about you? Will you help those you’re spying on, extort them, expose them and sabotage their dreams, or will you follow your instructions and sit twiddling your thumbs while the world burns? Enjoying Do Not Feed the Monkeys? Learn more about the game! https://donotfeedthemonkeys.com https://www.facebook.com/DNFTM/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Do Not Feed the Monkeys at none against Beholder's 1. Do Not Feed the Monkeys also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 69%). Beholder's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 38). 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
Beholder costs $4.99 and Do Not Feed the Monkeys $5.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Do Not Feed the Monkeys asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beholder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Beholder's written reviews are positive against 79% of Do Not Feed the Monkeys's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Do Not Feed the Monkeys every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beholder | Do Not Feed the Monkeys |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better | 4.6 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 770 MB | 890 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CM Games OU | Alawar Entertainment, Inc |
Customer experience
Beholder
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
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
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Beholder
- Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
No in-app purchases
Questions
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