About Beholder

Beholder plunges you into a bleak dystopian future where a totalitarian State reaches into every corner of public and private life. The laws are oppressive, surveillance is absolute, and privacy has simply ceased to exist. You are the State-appointed manager of an apartment building, and while your outward job is keeping the place pleasant for a rotating cast of tenants, that role is only a mask over your true purpose.

Your real work is covert. You watch the tenants, listen in on their conversations, plant bugs in their apartments while they are out, rifle through their belongings for anything that might threaten the regime, and build profiles for your superiors. Anyone who looks capable of breaking the law or plotting against the State is yours to report, and you carry out this surveillance as a small cog in the machine while also caring for a family of your own.

The strategy and moral weight come from the choices this indie adventure forces on you. Turn in a suspicious father and orphan his children, cover for him, or blackmail him for your family's sake. Dozens of quests and countless decisions ripple outward, steadily bending the story toward whatever ending your conscience allows.