The quests vary in length and complexity, and that manages to keep you on your toes. For instance, you might have to go get some medicine for you daughter or you might have to find a way to evict one of your tenants. All of them have a-usually quite generous-time limit and range from the simple to the complex.
In terms of mechanics, the game constantly gives you quests, which appear as little bubbles to the left side of the screen, that you have to complete. When you start playing the game, though, you begin to see that there’s much more to your role than just being the State’s lackey. Even though its theme is dark and the characters you meet sour and dejected, Beholder is still great fun to play, even when you meet your demise at the end of an angry tenant’s knife.īeholder‘s concept is simple: you are a State-appointed landlord, and your job is to ensure your tenants obey the State’s directives by any means possible. Still, they both managed to involve the player in what is a game of moral tug of war, where any initial desire to play the game as a moral and just individual slowly gets crushed under the reality that is survival for you and, in many instances, your family.īeholder ($4.99) similarly manages to make being a hero in a totalitarian regime a much more difficult task than one would initially assume, all the while offering a very entertaining game with moments of dark humor and plenty of gameplay variety. Paper’s Please and The Westport Independent played on the delicate balance between being moral and staying alive in an oppressive regime, although with differing levels of success. Recently, we’ve had the “pleasure" of playing quite a few games that turn you into a cog in a totalitarian machine rather than a hero fighting against a ruthless State apparatus.
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