Comparison

Beholder vs Beholder

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

Beholder

Take on the role of a train conductor, monitoring passengers, reporting suspicious activity, and making difficult decisions. Advance your career by completing secret missions and uncovering illegal activities.

Highlights
  • Monitor passenger activity
  • Report suspicious behavior
  • Search baggage for contraband
  • Advance through train compartments
  • Complete secret missions
  • Make moral choices
Features
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*Beholder: Conductor is free to download. An in-app purchase is required to unlock the full experience.* Welcome aboard the Determination Bringer! You have been appointed senior conductor of the legendary train, which all the citizens of our vast country are happy to see in their cities. Your responsibilities are maintaining order in the carriage assigned to you and providing assistance to passengers along the way. Your tools are reporting, intimidation, searches and ejection. Remember: the conductor is always right. Monitor the passengers Carefully monitor everyone who enters the carriage and decide what to do with fare-evaders. Observe and report all suspicious, unauthorized and basically any passenger activity. Search the baggage and call the police if you find prohibited items. Move up the train Get access to the dining car or VIP compartments and carriages where high-ranking officials and big industrialists ride. Keep an eye on your colleagues and report their accepting bribes or transporting banned goods. The Ministry will not let your dedication go unnoticed. Complete secret missions Earn the trust of higher-ups in order to receive special assignments. Their level of secrecy will depend on your loyalty, and completion will be rewarded with a bonus or even a promotion. You will also encounter smugglers, transporting their packages along the route is risky, but profitable. Visit various stations and remote corners of the country. Make difficult decisions determining the fate of passengers and your colleagues. What kind of person will you be at the end of the journey? The choice is yours!

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beholder at Free against Beholder's $4.99. Beholder also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Beholder's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (69% vs 53%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 is free to download; Beholder costs $4.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beholder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 226, 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 53% of Beholder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beholder ships an update every 2 months, Beholder every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Beholder versus Beholder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholderBeholder
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better4.3 (226 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better53.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.7K — better226
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#95 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size770 MB299 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCM Games OUPlug In Digital

Customer experience

Beholder

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

Beholder

All ratings226 ratings
Positive81.9%
Neutral6.2%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews193 reviews
Positive53.4%
Neutral11.9%
Negative34.7%

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

Beholder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99
1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Full Game Beholder: Conductor$6.99

Questions

Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Beholder free?
Beholder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beholder or Beholder?
Beholder is rated higher. Beholder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Beholder averages 4.3 from 226 ratings.
Do Beholder or Beholder have ads?
Neither Beholder nor Beholder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beholder or Beholder?
Beholder ships an update every 2 months, and Beholder every 3 weeks. Most recently, Beholder was updated on October 16, 2026 and Beholder on October 16, 2026.

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