Keys in hand, I walked into my brand new job. Or rather, I was led in by some very shady looking government officials. I was the apartment manager for a building in the middle of on oppressive surveillance State. I had been installed here by the Ministry to keep an eye on the residents and report the comings and goings of those living in the complex. Succeed, and I would ruin a lot of other people’s live while ensuring a better future for myself and my family. Fail, however, and this delicately balanced modicum of success I was seeing in the oppressive State (read: being alive) would all come crashing down. I would be killed, and my family would soon follow.
Beholder: Complete Edition is the console release of a title that originally launched on PC back in 2016, and then came to iOS in 2017. It includes the Blissful Sleep DLC that came out on the PC in 2017 as well, which is a separate campaign that should be played upon completion of the main game. The main task is to manage an apartment complex. Installed by the State, I would be required to watch the residents, report on their actions, and sometimes take action of my own at the behest of a single phone call, all in addition to managing relationships with the people living there and maintaining the needs of my family. It’s a management sim with a twist. Yet the game can’t quite manage itself.
Beholder never really manages the management sim aspects very well. Instead of having a budget of expenses vers...