Comparison

Beholder vs Messiahs

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Beholder4 screens
Messiahs4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Beholder versus Messiahs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholderMessiahs
Price$4.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better4.6 (3.7K ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better64.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1.7K3.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size770 MB128 MB
Age rating12++12
DeveloperCM Games OUFatih Beceren

Customer experience

Beholder

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

Messiahs

All ratings3,686 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral5.4%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral14.0%
Negative21.1%

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

Messiahs

From 3.7K App Store ratings

What 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

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
None

Messiahs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Messiahs free?
Messiahs costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beholder or Messiahs?
Beholder is rated higher. Beholder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Messiahs averages 4.6 from 3.7K ratings.
Do Beholder or Messiahs have ads?
Neither Beholder nor Messiahs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beholder or Messiahs?
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, and Messiahs every 11 days. Most recently, Beholder was updated on October 19, 2026 and Messiahs on October 17, 2026.

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