Beholder vs Messiahs
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
Messiahs
Spread a new faith across the world by using words and miracles. Navigate complex social dynamics, perform divine acts, and upgrade your religion to overcome hatred and lies. Your journey will lead to one of twenty possible endings.
- Spread a new faith
- Use words and miracles
- Visit cities and right wrongs
- Upgrade your religion
- Encounter hundreds of people and stories
- Achieve one of twenty endings
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Can you convert the whole world to your religion? A new faith is born and you are chosen to spread it. Humanity will always find a reason to hate you. You need to use your words and miracles and improve your faith in order to spread it to the entire world. You must speak to people without gaining much hatred, visit cities and right wrongs with miracles. You will meet hundreds of people and stories on your journey, starting either from Egypt, Jerusalem, or Rome and will get one of the twenty endings as you try to spread your faith. You can upgrade your religion to reach more people and improve yourself to perform miracles or cause calamities. Your words will create chaos in the world, and you must handle hatred, lies, kings, and demons to create a religion that all can follow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Messiahs at none against Beholder's 1. Messiahs also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). Beholder's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and device support 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 Messiahs $1.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Messiahs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beholder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.7K and 3.7K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Beholder's written reviews are positive against 65% of Messiahs's.
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Messiahs every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beholder | Messiahs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better | 4.6 (3.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 64.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K | 3.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 770 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +12 |
| Developer | CM Games OU | Fatih Beceren |
Customer experience
Beholder
Messiahs
User reviews
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
Messiahs
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun game concept
- 👍 Good value for money
- 🚀 Engaging gameplay
- 👍 Unique religion-based mechanics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🤔 Repetitive and limited dialogue options
- 🤔 Unclear mechanics and objectives
- 🤔 Arbitrary and confusing outcomes
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
Messiahs
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes and crashes on startup
- Dialogue options not working properly
- Inconsistent and illogical effects from choices
Requested features
4 requests- More diverse religion options beyond Abrahamic faiths
- Ability to fully customize religion and commandments
- Improved tutorial and explanations
- Smoother and more intuitive controls
In-app purchases
Beholder
- Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
Messiahs
No in-app purchases









