Comparison

Prison Life RPG vs Beholder

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

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About

Prison Life RPG

Immerse yourself in a challenging roguelike survival RPG set within prison walls. Manage your health, build relationships, learn skills, and plot your escape or strive for parole. With numerous prisoners to play as and diverse activities, each playthrough offers a unique experience.

Highlights
  • Play as 100 unique prisoners
  • Learn 18 different skills
  • Join 4 distinct gangs
  • Craft and collect over 80 items
  • Multiple escape routes
  • Engage in prison activities
Features
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Top 1 Paid App, Overall Games, RPG and Simulation in France, Taiwan and Hong Kong App Store! Touch Arcade forums' Game of the Week! Over 66,000 copies sold across all platform, with over 200,000 players! ----------------------------------------- "with that many features, and its replayability value, it's hard to put down the game once you've started playing." - modernjamming "This game has no IAP of any kind and the replay value is huge." - idownloadblog "Huge game with a lot of content, Solid RPG with survival like timetables" - indie-love "Prison Life RPG is surprisingly deep." - Pocket Gamer "There is so much going on in this game that only paying $3.99 feels like a crime. " iOS App of the Week - iPhoneFAQ ----------------------------------------- Dear prisoners, this is Warden speaking. Welcome to the Prison, where you are SENTENCED to play! Can you survive the harsh prison life? Can you escape before your execution? ****NO ADS AND IAP ALLOWED**** Prison Life RPG is a premium game with no ads or in-app purchases. Hurray! PRISON BROCHURE Prison Life is a Roguelike+Survival+Simulation+Role-Playing game that places you behind bars. To survive the punishment of the penitentiary system, you’ll need to stay healthy and fit, gain allies, eliminate enemies, bribe the guards, bet in illegal boxing matches, and more while pushing for parole or planning an escape. PRISON CAPACITY With more than 100 prisoners to interact with, you'll never feel bored! You can play as any one of the 100 prisoners! PRISONER ACTIVITIES Watch TV, call your grandma, learn skills, craft items, get bullied, wash toilet, flirt with the pretty Doctor in Sick Bay, bribe the guards or just idle around! SOCIAL RELATION Make friends and join gangs to increase your defense, fighting, and, of course, escape power. Be careful though, prisoners your offended will beat you up or even kill you! PLOT YOUR ESCAPE There are many ways to break out of prison. You just need to collect the proper tools and talent to pull off the perfect plan! PRISON FEATURES: ◆100 prisoners to play as, each with his own Personal Goal/Mission ◆18 skills to learn and master ◆4 gangs to join and climb up the ranks ◆Recruit up to 7 inmates in your escape plan ◆80+ items to collect or craft ◆126 nicknames/achievements to earn ◆20+ different jobs ◆Different ways to escape from prison ◆You will die plenty of times ROAD TO FREEDOM Behave and get released? Arrange early parole with lawyer? Suicide? Break out from prison with an escape team? Become the Gang leader? Executed? The choice is yours, prisoner. ABOUT THE PRISON Took more than a year to construct, the warden guarantees that this prison is deep, challenging and will lock you up for hours! SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Download this game now or I'll send you to the hole! Lights out! Warden Follow the Warden on twitter: https://twitter.com/nobstudio Discuss prison life and more reviews in Toucharcade: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=255996 GAME REVIEWS FantaBobGames: Let's Play Prison Life RPG youtube series in French http://youtu.be/w6XjpMOfYFw modern jamming: Detailed review + Tips and Tricks http://www.modernjamming.com/games/prison-life-rpg-prison-life-simulator idownloadblog: Survive, escape, or die in prison http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/03/17/prison-life-rpg-review-survive-escape-or-die-in-prison/ Indie Love: The Role Playing Prison Game You Never Knew You Wanted http://indie-love.com/2015/03/16/prison-life-rpg-the-role-playing-prison-game-you-never-knew-you-wanted/ iPhonefaq: iOS App of the Week: Prison Life RPG http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/974332 MY PART TIME SPACE: Prison Life RPG iOS Game Review http://mypartimespace.blogspot.sg/2015/02/prison-life-rpg.html

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

Prison Life RPG4 screens
Beholder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prison Life RPG at none against Beholder's 1. Prison Life RPG also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 69%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Beholder's advantage is chart position (#106 vs unranked) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 259). On rating, 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

Prison Life RPG costs $6.99 and Beholder $4.99 up front. Beholder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Prison Life RPG asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Prison Life RPG against 4.8 for Beholder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beholder has 1.7K ratings behind it against 259, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Prison Life RPG's written reviews are positive against 69% of Beholder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prison Life RPG ships an update every 3 weeks, Beholder every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Prison Life RPG versus Beholder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrison Life RPGBeholder
Price$6.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.8 (259 ratings)4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.6% of reviews — better69.2% of reviews
Number of ratings2591.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#106 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB770 MB
Age rating+1212+
DeveloperNob Studio PTE. LTD.CM Games OU

Customer experience

Prison Life RPG

All ratings236 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews430 reviews
Positive92.6%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.1%

Beholder

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

User reviews

Prison Life RPG

From 259 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Fun and addictive
  • 🕹️ Unique and deep gameplay
  • 💰 Worth the money
  • 🕹️ Lots of replayability

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Lacks updates
  • 🔍 Needs more content
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs

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

Prison Life RPG

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game freezes when killing too many prisoners
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More escape options
  • More prisons and characters
  • Ability to create custom characters
  • Riot/contraband system
  • Animations for activities

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

Prison Life RPG

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Beholder

One-time1
  • Blissful Sleep DLC$2.99

Questions

Is Prison Life RPG free?
Prison Life RPG costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beholder free?
Beholder costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Prison Life RPG or Beholder?
Beholder is rated higher. Prison Life RPG averages 4.8 out of 5 from 259 ratings, while Beholder averages 4.8 from 1.7K ratings.
Do Prison Life RPG or Beholder have ads?
Neither Prison Life RPG nor Beholder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prison Life RPG or Beholder?
Prison Life RPG ships an update every 3 weeks, and Beholder every 2 months. Most recently, Prison Life RPG was updated on October 29, 2026 and Beholder on October 29, 2026.

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