Comparison

Knock vs Beholder

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Knock

Experience an unsettling survival horror game where you must maintain a dilapidated cabin and your sanity. Hide from grotesque intruders and uncover the mystery behind a Lodger's nightmarish ordeal to survive until morning.

Highlights
  • Survival and madness gameplay
  • Hide from creatures
  • Repair cabin and lights
  • Maintain sanity
  • Solve Lodger's nightmare mystery
Features
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An eerie, uncomfortable horror is creeping from PC over to iOS! "It is a game as much about horror as it is of horror" - Rock Paper Shotgun "Knock-Knock is a gorgeous survival horror game with more style than sense" - IGN "One of the most fascinating and even endearing gaming experiences I’ve had in ages" - GameFront *** Three generations of Lodgers have occupied the cabin, but lately, the walls seem to undulate, skittering unknowns shift in the darkness, and an unruly growl seeps from the attic. Are they hallucinations pecking at the insomnia-afflicted Lodger, or the gnarled remnants of a darker secret? The woods finally give in to the nightfall, and the dreadful things come out to play. Survive the night while maintaining the dilapidated cabin and preventing the threadbare sanity of the Lodger from unraveling completely. Hide from the grotesque intruders peering from the gloom and seek out the key to ending the Lodger's ordeal. Features: - A game of survival and troubling madness. - Hide from the invading creatures. - Fix the lights and keep the cabin rooms repaired to ward off evil. - Survive the night with your sanity intact. - Solve the mystery of the Lodgers nightmare.

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

Screenshots

Knock4 screens
Beholder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knock at none against Beholder's 1. Knock also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). Beholder's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 181). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Knock costs $0.99 and Beholder $4.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Knock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Knock against 4.8 for Beholder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 181, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Knock's written reviews are positive against 69% of Beholder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Knock ships an update every 28 months, Beholder every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Knock versus Beholder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnockBeholder
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (181 ratings)4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better69.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1811.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size561 MB770 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperIce-Pick Lodge StudioCM Games OU

Customer experience

Knock

All ratings180 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews222 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral9.9%
Negative15.3%

Beholder

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

User reviews

Knock

From 181 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Unique and beautiful art style
  • 🔊 Exceptional sound design and atmosphere
  • 😱 Genuinely creepy psychological horror
  • 🎮 Innovative gameplay mechanics
  • 💭 Thought-provoking and mind-bending narrative

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and game-breaking glitches
  • 🎮 Clunky and unresponsive touch controls
  • ⏱️ Slow-paced and repetitive gameplay
  • 🤔 Confusing mechanics without clear objectives
  • 🏠 House disappears in forest but still audible

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

Bugs and requests

Knock

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Game crashes when loading saved progress
  • Incompatible with iOS 11 and later
  • House disappears in forest (visual glitch)
  • Monsters render as pink shapes/balls
  • Cutscenes are muted on some devices
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  • Game over screen appears randomly mid-level
  • Save files corrupted after updates
  • Door interaction requires multiple taps to register
  • Hiding behind objects doesn't work consistently
  • Clock and hourglass don't display correctly
  • Game crashes in forest after doppelgänger level
  • Enemies not displaying (purple figures invisible)

Requested features

9 requests
  • Update to iOS 11 and 64-bit compatibility
  • Survival mode with extended gameplay
  • Improved touch control responsiveness
  • Control pad or sensitivity settings option
  • Better shadow effects like PC version
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  • Clearer in-game objectives and tutorial
  • Realistic shadows and visual improvements
  • More story content and narrative clarity
  • Fix save file system and progress persistence

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

In-app purchases

None

Knock

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99

Questions

Is Knock free?
Knock costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Knock or Beholder?
Beholder is rated higher. Knock averages 4.7 out of 5 from 181 ratings, while Beholder averages 4.8 from 1.7K ratings.
Do Knock or Beholder have ads?
Neither Knock nor Beholder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Knock or Beholder?
Knock ships an update every 28 months, and Beholder every 2 months. Most recently, Knock was updated on October 23, 2026 and Beholder on October 24, 2026.

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