$17.99Beholder 3 Spy on your neighbours, survive the Ministry
Play a blackmailed informant juggling surveillance jobs and office politics in a dark, funny dystopia where your choices shape the ending.
Is Beholder 3 worth it?
Beholder 3 is worth it if…
- you enjoyed spying on tenants and filing reports in the first Beholder
- you like stories where every choice marks you, from blackmail to betrayal
- you want a dystopia told with a straight face and a dark joke
- you have the patience for a game with rough edges around a strong core
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Two jobs, one compromised life
By day he is a clerk in the Ministry, by night the landlord of an apartment block, and both jobs are covers for the same thing: finding out everything about everyone.
That means breaking into apartments while tenants are out or asleep, planting cameras, and searching offices for anything your superiors could use. It also means keeping the cover intact: paying bills, fixing up apartments, keeping tenants happy enough not to ask questions. A landlord who forgets the rent collection looks suspicious too.
The tension comes from the juggling. Every errand for one master is time stolen from the other, and someone is always waiting for a result.
Factions, favors and dirty work
The Ministry is not one block of loyal servants. Different factions are secretly fighting for power over it and the country, and Frank is useful to all of them precisely because he owes everyone.
You pick whose schemes to serve, play rivals against each other, and take the quests that come with it: promoting state ideology, manipulating flags, spreading whatever propaganda lands on your desk. Some tasks are plain dirty, like eliminating a person your boss wants gone. Others are absurd enough to laugh at, in the way this world intends: the humor is dry, bleak and part of the writing.
Each side promises a way back to Frank's old life, or maybe something better. Who you help and who you sacrifice decides which of the multiple endings you earn.
