Comparison

Beholder vs Horizon SMILE

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

Horizon SMILE

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SMILE serious game developed as part of the SMILE EU project interwoves the principles of CBT with a compaling story set in a Cyberpunk Scenario.Player's mission is to save the city of Hopetown by applying CBT principles.

Screenshots

Beholder4 screens
Horizon SMILE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Horizon SMILE at Free against Beholder's $4.99. Horizon SMILE also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Beholder's advantage is chart position (#175 vs unranked). 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Horizon SMILE every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Beholder versus Horizon SMILE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholderHorizon SMILE
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#175 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size770 MB1.4 GB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperCM Games OUNurogames GmbH

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

Horizon SMILE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
None

Horizon SMILE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Horizon SMILE free?
Horizon SMILE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beholder or Horizon SMILE have ads?
Neither Beholder nor Horizon SMILE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beholder or Horizon SMILE?
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, and Horizon SMILE every 5 days. Most recently, Beholder was updated on October 26, 2026 and Horizon SMILE on October 25, 2026.

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