Beholder
BANGER · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.39.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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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.
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?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.83. That was April 2025. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 91 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.39 at 90 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 72. The current cut is what makes it a 86.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Do Not Feed the Monkeys ($1.59, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 2 ($2.69, scores 75).
$6.47 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $1.39.
75 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,326 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,809 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.
The drop-off
75% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
138 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I mean. It's ight for how old this game is but it sorta resembles how fallout 1 is and how janky and just out of place it feels. Most of the late mid game to late game feels like filler because you honestly dont do much in the time frame. Its like all the story was dropped on you at the beginning of the game and it dies out like a candle.
When I play games, I use the 1 hour per dollar spent rule. I spent $2.15 on this in 2021, and delayed playing this for a while. I put in a little over 3 hours just now and here's my take. -This game has some fun mechanics, like using the cameras to view a person's crimes being committed or the different types of currency this game has. -The dialogue is something I like to call Eurocringe. -Had to restart my...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Beholder scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/475550/beholderThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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