Beholder 2

Decent game.
The first beholder is obviously much better.

- movement feels weird (-0.1)
- searching objects takes way too long (-0.1)
- cannot load previous saves (you'll have to save yourself) (-1)
- game will force you to work if you take choices that wont give authority (-1)
- some evidence boxes unobtainable if you complete specific quests. (-0.25)
- evidence boxes unobtainable if robot Carl replaces workers. (-0.25)

Had to restart my game just to get an evidence box from a vending machine, not like I couldn't unscrew it without needing a quest.

Do I recommend buying the game at its full price? no.
With discount? Yes.

Did I finish the game? No, i'm not spending an hour of my life programming clones.

Overall 7.3/10. Game could've been better.

Good game

I was very excited to play this after the first one but honestly, this one is just really bad. The 3D ruins everything in this game. The gameplay gets very boring after few minutes. And there is so much dialoge it's INSANE. The walking is annoying as well, I only played it for 30 mins but the whole time I was just walking and reading uninteresting dialoge. The first one was way better. I tried to push through but no, just no.

For the Motherland

I have had the beholder seriers

beholder series never disappoint although they should have added like some sort of skibidi boss

This game has a good plot and a unique art style that fits the theme. Having 100%'d the game, I rate it highly. Though, there are a couple of achievements that are a bit tedious, but those are completely unnecessary to get the true ending.

Good game

gameplay nice
twist and turns

very well made game. I do wish it did not have all this Adult Dark Content. ):

Didn't beat the game!

Phantastic game.
But i wish for a little more life sim for Evan.
He deserve it.
He work his hand to the bones but has neither a private life and no fun in his life.
Evan is so cute.
Worth every penny.

ALL HAIL WISE LEADER!

Very much worth it if its on sale

I like the game play of the first one, this feels too much "linear game". The mechanics to earn authority is so grind

A lovely game with lots of laughs and intense moments. Check it and the others out.

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Weaker than it's predecessor and gets repetitive quick. It's hook is not good enough to keep me from burning out on the monotony early.

The game is a successful sequel to the first one. Although not without moments that are repetitive and could use some quality of life updates.

I'd say this game is definitely good, wouldn't say as great as the first as they caught lightning in a bottle that time but it's still very good if you're looking for a dystopian game.

Awesome game that tests your morals. It is like George Orwell's 1984 book.

Having not played the first game I had no idea what to expect but I must say I was thoroughly impressed! Oddly enough, the closest game to this I would say is Kindergarten, where you have a certain number of actions in a day before you have to go to bed. It makes every day feel tense as the consequences of your poor actions keep piling up. Nevertheless, with enough trial and error, it was truly satisfying to get to the top of the corporate ladder! Just don't play this game if you want to have a corporate job in the future - it will put you off.

im not a big fan of the government

The vibe is awesome.

one of my favorite games ever. i enjoyed beholder 1 and 3 but this game felt so much better and more interesting. I did multiple play throughs and was able to get 100% completion. enjoyed every minute and would recommend

While the game is engaging, specifically from a story perspective, the gameplay loop of sorting complaints into different departments get tedious quickly and is far less addictive than the spying of the first game. An ambitious game that is less Beholder-sequel and more Beholder-coat-of-paint.

5 / 10
좋은 의미에서 악몽을 꾸는 느낌이었다.
(In a good sense) I felt like I was having a nightmare.

More personalistic than first one, but not boring.

"Five Minutes of Hatred" nice one, mate

♥

Good game

Literally 1984

I prefer the 1st one over this any day. You would have to pay me per hour to play this again.

I like the feel of this game, maybe even better than the first one

I loved the first game. Your family and home life are curiously missing in this sequel. It is painfully obvious that the formula that made the first one pure gold was not applied to this game. I lost interest in like 30 minutes.

Welcome to the Ministry, where your dream job involves snitching, scheming, and deciding whether to climb the corporate ladder or burn it down. Beholder 2 takes the Orwellian nightmare of its predecessor and cranks it up, throwing you into a morally twisted bureaucratic circus. Will you be a loyal bootlicker or a secret revolutionary? Either way, expect dark humor, brutal choices, and a lot of paperwork.

With its grim yet oddly hilarious storytelling, creepy art style, and endless ethical dilemmas, Beholder 2 makes bureaucracy feel terrifyingly fun. Just remember: in this job, “wrong choices” often mean “mysterious disappearances.”

Beholder 2

Genuinely one of the greatest games I have ever played. I love the puzzles and the work mini games. The attention to details and story is phenomenal. I can't believe this game is so cheap. This game is an absolute must play.

Has potential, but ultimately was frustrating. You work for the government and one of the main things you have to do is direct visitors to the correct ministry of the government, in order to handle their request/problem. You have to figure out the right ministry based on what the visitors tell you. I had a really hard time guessing the right ministry. It feels ambiguous, like you either aren't given enough information or the ministry descriptions the game gives you just aren't clear enough. Either way, it's the part of the game that you have to grind and it feels frustrating and not fun.

The story and the characters are interesting, but having to grind through the guessing game of your job is what made me nope out of this game. I don't recommend it.

Finished in 10 hours too easy

Chinese simulator

So it became quickly apparent that the minigames which are a big part of the core gameplay, just aren't fun when it's a necessity to grind them to pay bills.

I ended up following a walkthrough to find out how to complete the game without having to replay the minigames after realising it how onerous they were.

This game is generally okay if you play, screw up a few times and end up going "aww that was my fault" - and never try to complete it. But the problem is that core parts of the game which use up your time just aren't engaging and don't really have a payoff - aside from avoiding getting evicted (ending the game), or earning achievements. The story is not worth it, it's a nonsensical combination of I, Robot (the movie) and Orwell (another undercooked game).

It's a pity too because the OG beholder was such a novel idea and actually quite engaging, but running back and forth from the security gate to home, and then having to grind random maths combination puzzles (for several hours) to get enough authority points to finish the game, taints its legacy. Only ever buy this on sale and if you don't enjoy it for the aesthetics, don't bother with the grind.

Esta bien, lamentablemente nos muestra un final canon de la primera entrega.... eso me deprimio.

The game is not for me. I think beholder 1 is much fun as you play as a landlord. In beholder 2 u gotta process all those complaints and reports every day which is very boring. I m tired of doing all that to progress the story

Great Game!

I really like the new time management that feels more Persona (your actions take up time) and less headless chicken running around trying to complete tasks. It allows me to focus more on my moral actions and less on stressing out doing things the correct way. The gameplay of going out from your apartment at night to explore and ending up with one of those CYOA type games was loads of fun too, spicing up the gameplay of the first Beholder.

The biggest selling point for me is that you can be a far more chaotic evil, psychopathic scumbag here than the first game. It's like what Randy Meeks said about sequels. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate. Carnage candy. You get a lot more elaborate gore scenes here to the point where one of the achievements literally referenced DOKA 2. Deep cut.

Of course, there is one big gripe, however: the minigames. They're just awful, even with a guide. I'm only in the 2nd minigame, and half the times, I almost fell asleep. I like that you can basically breeze through the 2nd minigame though without the help of a guide, but it's still kinda tedious.

It's not a dealbreaker though... at least not yet. I heard minigame 3 is worse, so that might be the straw that break me. But for now, I feel like the deliciously evil choices make up for it. I kinda wish more games would be ambitious enough to throw in these evil decisions in the game that makes you question your sanity and morality. Like, this game makes Baldur's Gate 3's Durge/murderhobo run look tame.

Recommended for those who love games where your decisions have great meaning and interactions like myself.

Edit: Yeah, minigame 3 sucks. But to be honest, you could just speedrun through it by hitting "Apply" when at least three bulbs light up. You'll get the minimum amount of profit, but by that point of the game, money shouldn't be a problem anyway. I think they've also changed it from minimum five bulbs to increase the quota, so that's great.

cool

yes

Beholder 2 is not just a simulator of the USSR, but a game with a deep plot that shows how badly this world is corrupted. Let’s take for example the “Good Samaritan” achievement, which only 37.7% of players have, although it can be obtained at the very beginning if you help Morris collect papers, so not only are people in this game rotten, but 62.3% of players are like that

Beholder 2 greatly expands upon the entirey of the series' worldbuilding and excels at pushing a rather hm ordinary dystopian story at first glance toward something hardly describable with words.
this game is worth replaying, too, since i picked the debatably bloodiest way to play it first and foremost, but i'll def go through this again at some point.
having not so much to do with the first game's gameplay, i probably liked that even more in this game, especially as it varies as you progress higher and higher up the Ministry.
if the first game was hugely Orwellian, this one here gets more original. it also elaborates on some of the prequel's obscurities, e.g. you get to know why the state outlawed damn APPLES. peak!

1985/10 orwellall. overall. yeah.