Beholder 2
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $1.37/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.79, set in April 2025. It has been discounted 71 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder ($13.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12).
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 11 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 618 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
50% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
From the very beginning of the game, it's nonsensical and chaotic. For example, there's a ministry of order, who you're meant to report crimes to - ah, but you DON'T report a theft to them, you report it to the ministry of arts and crafts, because... the stolen item is a book... Seriously? It's nonsense. I've gotten at least 5 questions wrong for absolutely insane reasons. Another example: spying isn't reportable to...
I played this game years ago, and was enjoying it. However there was a bug with the save and I ended up uninstalling because it was very frustrating to play the game for so long, grind a lot, and then lose all progress. I reinstalled the other day looking for something to play, the bug had been fixed and I started enjoying it. However, later on there was a quest line which resulted in an unavoidable game over, and...
A very well made game, save system is annoying af though especially if you save/load saves often.
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Cite this score
Beholder 2 scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/761620/beholder-2Reviews 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 Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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