Beholder
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$13.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.3990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.29/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 31,303
- Critics
- 75 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.39 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.1h
- To 100%
- 21.4h 3.5x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 92 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $0.83 April 2025
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 93 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 92 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.46, a level the record has reached 90 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Beholder 2 ($17.99, scores 66) and Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 11), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Beholder
75 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,148 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,820 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.1 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 3.5 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
i enjoy it very much its very replayable i love my daughter. accidentally killed my whole family. accidentally made a guy kill himself. got this woman arrested cause i was bored. i love spying on and indirectly killing my tenants.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Мне понравилось, что от моих решений зависит судьба человека. Однозначно советую
This game is more mentally taxing than an actual job. Tried to get through it but there's just no incentive to do anything besides to preserve my mortality. The plot has to be a bit more engaging, especially at the beginning to grab hold of the player. Props to anybody who actually finished this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 600M / ATI Radeon HD 5450 (1GB), 1.6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Beholder scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/475550/beholderReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.