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So, while you can easily load a previous save state should things go awry, Beholder 3 demands players to take every action with intent and a forward-thinking approach to maximize the chances of success. On the flip side, if you forget to do your chores or get caught snooping around – you will be liable to a fine that needs to be paid in due time alongside the usual bills that come with managing a property. " You see, most of the quests are time-sensitive, and failure to complete the tasks given to you by superiors will always result in a game over. You can earn additional money by completing side quests, doing chores in a timely fashion, and providing any relevant information about your tenants to the Ministry. Additionally, players also have to manage their money wisely, as the moment you get bankrupt – it’s game over.

You see, most of the quests are time-sensitive, and failure to complete the tasks given to you by superiors will always result in a game over. In Beholder 3, money and time are your most valuable resources. Your tools of espionage include a hidden camera which can be planted in a tenant’s apartment or a colleague’s office cabin and lockpicks that can be used to break into these spaces to either gain or implant evidence that can be used in Frank’s reports or blackmails. Most of the time, you will constantly run around the same spaces over and over again, interacting with various objects and engaging in conversations with NPCs to complete quests.

" Beholder 3 is at its best when it is operating on this tight-rope choice and consequence mechanic, which it manages to retain for a good amount of its runtime."īeholder 3‘s gameplay is standard point-and-click adventure stuff minus any puzzles. Beholder 3 is at its best when it is operating on this tight-rope choice and consequence mechanic, which it manages to retain for a good amount of its runtime. However, with your life always on the line – you are very likely to end up in a moral middle ground where you are constantly teeter-tottering with your moral choices in the hopes of making it out alive and hopefully, climbing through the ranks as quickly as possible.

For instance, you could cater to the officials who are forward-thinking and revolutionary, or you could carry out all orders from the Great Leader with utmost sincerity. Beholder 3‘s choice and consequence mechanics are very well done, and many of them alter the relationships between the characters in meaningful ways. The overarching narrative is all about Frank climbing the ranks of the Ministry and making a ton of choices along the way. However, most of these interesting concepts are punctuated by dialogue that’s extremely bland and a chore to sit through. It’s rather interesting to see citizens hiding a pair of jeans in their closets because that’s a symbol of modernism, or having a conversation describing what a CD player is and how earphones work as you work on a reform to legalize listening to Rock, Pop, and Punk music. The story isn’t anything exceptional, although it manages to do a great job of depicting a totalitarian state where rules need to be followed to a tee in order to survive. Should you get a hold of anything suspicious, it falls upon your shoulders to report them to the authorities. But most importantly, you have to keep a close eye on your tenants at all times carefully monitoring their activities using your tools of espionage and tricks of social engineering. "Īs the property manager, you have to take care of all the public services within the apartment – such as the laundry, heating machines, and garbage cans. " Unsurprisingly, Frank chooses the latter of the options – following which he is appointed as a property manager for an apartment. Unsurprisingly, Frank chooses the latter of the options – following which he is appointed as a property manager for an apartment. After your work computer gets implanted with a virus from an unknown hacker, you are taken into custody by the authorities – wherein you are given two options – either scrape coal through your bare hands in the mines for the rest of your life or work as an undercover informant for the government. You play as Frank Schwarz, a paper-pushing employee at a government organization.

More often than not, however – these promising and rather unique themes get undermined by shallow gameplay mechanics and other technical inefficiencies.īeholder 3 puts players in the center of the action straight away. It’s political with its themes and narrative, and sports some interesting gameplay mechanics to go with it. Much like publisher Alawar Premium’s previous outings in the franchise, Beholder 3 remains a game that’s all about surviving and thriving by any means in a totalitarian state.