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Beholder - Blissful Sleep



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  2. You don't know where you'll end up: 'Beholder' is a game of multiple endings. 'Blissful Sleep' additional story is already available!. The Ministry of Introductions is honored to introduce Hector, the ex-landlord succeeded by Carl Shteyn. The time has come to tell the stories of.
  3. سایر توضیحات: Beholder Blissful Sleep یکی از بازی های سبک استراتژیک و ماجرایی است که توسط کمپانی Warm Lamp Games طراحی و ساخته شده و به تازگی توسط کمپانی Alawar Entertainment برای پلتفرم PC روانه بازار شده است.
  4. All Discussions. I'm aware (please correct me if I'm wrong), there are only 4 possible endings to this task and only 2 ways to avoid the blissful sleep.

Beholder - Blissful Sleep Fully Released DLC The Ministry of Introductions is honored to introduce Hector, the ex-landlord succeeded by Carl Shteyn. You may remember him being beaten and then dragged away, but things aren't always what they seem to be.

Beholder
Developer(s)Warm Lamp Games
Publisher(s)Alawar Entertainment
EngineUnity 3D
Platform(s)Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release
Genre(s)Adventure, strategy
Mode(s)Single-player

Beholder is a Russianvideo game about life in a totalitarian state.[1] The game was developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment.[2]

Beholder was released on Steam on November 9, 2016 and supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Story[edit]

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Beholder is inspired by dystopian works of George Orwell,[3]Aldous Huxley, and Ray Bradbury.

Carl is a government-installed landlord in a totalitarian state. The State appoints Carl to spy on the tenants. The player can bug apartments while tenants are away, search their belongings for whatever can threaten the authority of the State, and profile them. The State requires the player to report anyone capable of violating the law or plotting subversive activities.[4]

The game offers the player the choice of either following the commands of the Government or siding with the people who suffer from the oppressive directives.

Each game character has their own personality, circumstances, and issues. Every decision that a player makes affects the way the story unfolds. The game has multiple endings, each of them being a sum of the decisions made by the player.[5]

Development and release[edit]

Beholder was developed by the Russian team at Warm Lamp Games, located in Barnaul. The team was created based on the Barnaul division of Alawar Stargaze.[6] The Work on the project began in October 2015.[6] The Beholder prototype contained elements of the economic game, which were expressed in the fact that the residents of the house paid rent to the main character for housing, and the player had to improve his living conditions, but later it was decided to remove them, because the creators considered that the search component of the game in this way will go the way.[6] On April 26, 2016, the game appeared on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, where developers collected $25,000 to fund the game's creation. During the company, this amount was never charged and the decision was made to close the funding before the deadline. The game was also introduced on Steam Greenlight and, on May 9, reached 10th place among the projects submitted for approval by the community.[7] During game creation, developers focused on games like Papers, Please and This War of Mine, as well as the works of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.[6][7]

On October 6, 2016, the Beholder demo appeared on the Steam store.[6]

The game for personal computers was launched on November 9, 2016. On May 17, 2017, the game was released for mobile devices on iOS and Android operating systems. On January 16 and 19, 2018, the Beholder was available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, respectively.[7][8]

On May 18, 2017, Steam released another downloadable content called Beholder: Blissful Sleep, in which the player has the opportunity to learn more about the game world and the residents of the house. According to the supplement's plot, the government issues a bill called 'Blessed Dream', which exposes all citizens who have reached the age of 85 to euthanasia. The name of the house manager is Hector Medina - he is about 65 years old, but due to an error, Hector's age has been corrected to '85 years old'. The player has a choice - to submit to fate and fall asleep with a 'blessed dream' or to avoid euthanasia by various methods. Unlike the original, the protagonist has no family, with the exception of the cat and his 30-year-old son, who works on the construction of a railway to the north. In additional content, the player has the opportunity to discover the story of the residents of the house that the next manager, Karl Stein, will encounter.[9]

Reception[edit]

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
MetacriticPC: 75/100[10]
iOS: 80/100[11]
PS4: 63/100[12]
XONE: 74/100[13]
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpotPC: 5/10[14]
TouchArcadeiOS: [15]
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Awards[edit]

Beholder has been nominated and won several conference awards:

  • Excellence in Game Design and Best Indie Game awards at the Minsk DevGAMM Conference 2016.[16]
  • Best Adventure Game @ IGN Russia[17]
  • Winner in Entertainment Category @ GDWC, 2016[18]
  • Best in Play @ Game Developer Conference, GDC Play 2017[19]
  • Most Creative & Original Game, Best Indie Game @ Game Connection America, 2017[20]

Short film[edit]

External video
Beholder short live-action film
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Russian filmmakers Nikita Ordynskiy and Liliya Tkach released a live-action short film for Beholder, with Russian actor Evgeniy Stychkin playing the role of Carl. The film was released onto YouTube on February 1, 2019.[21][22][23]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Spy on your neighbours in Beholder'. pcgamer. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  2. ^'Warm Lamp Games unveils BEHOLDER -- A Game of moral choices'. Destructoid. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  3. ^Smith, Adam (2016-10-06). 'Demo Of Surveillance Game Beholder Now Available'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  4. ^Vincent, Brittany (2016-11-13). 'Dystopia Simulator Beholder Out Just in the Nick of Time'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  5. ^'Beholder - A Game of Moral Choices'. DVS. 2016-10-13. Archived from the original on 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  6. ^ abcdeНиколай Чумаков (2016-10-24). ''В первую очередь, это игра о выборе': интервью с разработчиками антиутопии Beholder'. DTF. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  7. ^ abc'Beholder'. Mail.ru. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  8. ^'Beholder: Complete Edition for Xbox One Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  9. ^Лилия Дунаевская (2017-06-17). 'IGN тест. Beholder: Blissful Sleep'. IGN. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  10. ^'Beholder for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  11. ^'Beholder for iPhone/iPad Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  12. ^'Beholder: Complete Edition for PlayStation 4 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  13. ^'Beholder: Complete Edition for Xbox One Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  14. ^O'Connor, James (2017-02-07). 'Beholder Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  15. ^Lazarides, Tasos (2017-06-02). ''Beholder' Review – Oppressing People and Taking Names Was Never This Fun'. TouchArcade. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  16. ^'DevGAMM Awards Winners'. DevGAMM Minsk 2016. 2016-11-22. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  17. ^'ИТОГИ 2016 ГОДА'. IGN Russia. Ziff Davis. 2016-12-31. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  18. ^Rasila, Leevi. 'Game Development World Championship 2016 Winners'. Facebook. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  19. ^'These are your 'Best In Play' winners for GDC Play 2017!'. GDC Conference. UBM. 2017-02-21. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  20. ^'Game Connection America 2017 Development Awards'. Game Connection. Fazaé. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  21. ^Fogel, Stephanie (September 17, 2018). ''Papers, Please' Filmmakers Working on a 'Beholder' Adaptation'. Variety. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  22. ^Horti, Samuel (February 2, 2019). 'Watch the official Beholder film from studio behind Papers, Please short'. PC Gamer. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  23. ^'BEHOLDER. Official Short Film (2019) 4K'. youtube.com. Никита Ордынский. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

External links[edit]

  • Beholder review at PC Gamer
  • Beholder review at Destructoid
  • Beholder review at Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Beholder is a fairly unique game that draws constant comparisons to a game similar in vein- Papers, Please. In this game you are presented an incredibly depressing, dystopian environment where your character has to make difficult decisions that tend to hurt other people for the sake of your character’s safety and that of his family. You play as Carl, the new manager of an apartment complex run by a totalitarian state. Carl and his family move into the basement of this apartment complex, and Carl is also given experimental drugs that suppress his need for sleep so that he can monitor the occupants of the apartment complex constantly, reporting any infractions and doing all that is required of him by the Ministry of Allocation. So, will Beholder acquire your means of production, or should you save your dollars and watch the iron curtain fall? Let’s find out.

Beholder is a type of management simulation game: As Carl, you will accomplish tasks assigned to you by the Ministry, almost universally dealing with observing your tenants, and complete reports to send in for rewards. Observation is done quite simply: You can speak to the tenant to try and get information out of them, plant cameras in their apartments to be able to see what they’re doing, dig through their belongings, etc… Of course, doing the latter while the tenant comes back to their residence may wind up with them losing faith in you, potentially causing issues down the line.

There is a tutorial, thankfully, in Beholder, and the game starts off relatively slowly and giving you plenty of time. A particular residence is suspected of trafficking drugs, so you’re tasked with installing security cameras in common areas and in his apartment, and are to notify the Ministry when you see the illegal action occurring. The police come by, arrest him, and you receive your reward. This is among the few simple choices in the game- as many are wrapped in moral dilemmas, such as evicting or arresting a relatively upstanding couple for something simple or going through an elaborate plan to help them leave the country as fortune has really turned its back on them.

Notwithstanding, there aren’t just missions from the Ministry that you have to worry about. The tenants each have their own requests for you to do. Some are simple, some may leave you in a worse position than before you tried if you didn’t find the right solution ahead of time (one that’s fairly early on is a request that may rob you of $300 if you make the wrong choices, and this is during a time of the game when money is extremely tight due to other requests). Some choices, if ignored or not completed in time, will result in the arrest or death of a tenant or family member that could have otherwise helped you further in the story.

Each mission or request in Beholder has a time limit, usually a number of hours. The game starts off with easy to complete requests that you can take your time in fulfilling, but you’ll eventually reach a state where you’re given so many requests at once that you have to choose between shielding a tenant from the grip of an obviously tyrannical government, stealing all of their belongings in order to pay off your child’s hefty medical bills before it’s too late. Depending on how quickly or slowly you complete certain tasks, you may wind up being in a nearly unwinnable game state by a series of poor choices.

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The main difference between Beholder and games like Papers, Please is that Beholder largely acquires its difficulty from time pressure and multitasking- a vast majority of the time you’re being pulled in several directions at once. Sometimes events may crop up, without warning, that are nearly sheer cliffs in terms of difficulty spikes (one, in particular, requires an exorbitant amount of cash so high that unless you played nearly perfectly, you won’t have the cash or the proper way to circumvent the cost). These events are largely what shapes the replayability, as you’ll always know that you could do better if you can’t complete that one event and save that person in the building.

As the building manager, it’s Carl’s job to handle fixing up apartments when tenants move out, repair various furniture and appliances around the building, and more. If time is ticking down on a task that you haven’t yet completed (such as evicting a specific tenant) and you can’t find that they’ve done anything illegal, you can always purchase illegal paraphernalia and hide it in with their belongings. As a totalitarian state tends to do, random things will be declared illegal throughout the game that, if found, can be used to incriminate tenants if you want to blackmail them or get a reward from the Ministry. The things that are made illegal are truly random from a player’s perspective- apples, even crying are made illegal at one point or another in the game. Due to this, players are given quite a bit of leeway in how to accomplish tasks.

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The first thing players should notice when starting up Beholder is that the game is visually striking: The graphics aren’t particularly impressive, but every character is a shadowed, nigh-featureless figure that still allows you to recognize which character is which through high contrast use of negative space. The visuals lend to the dystopian atmosphere very well, as the apartment complex itself always appears dreary… almost dire in appearance. The music pairs with this quite well, reaching dramatic swells when you’re caught sneaking into a tenant’s abode or when police arrive to arrest a tenant. Characters speak in a low-tone sort of babble, similar to how characters communicate in games like Banjo Kazooie. While it’s not as engaging as voiced dialogue, it’s significantly better than silence and still fits with the cartoonish themes of the game.

The Blissful Sleep DLC is a short little expansion to the game that offers more of the same. You play as Hector, the building manager who came before Carl, and the DLC sheds some more light on the individual stories of quite a number of the tenants, as well as the totalitarian state. It takes maybe four hours to get through, which is perfectly reasonable for a $4 expansion.

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Overall, Beholder is a very entertaining game with excellent use of atmosphere and visuals to evoke a very dismal feel, and aggressive time management mechanics and multitasking to always keep the player busy doing a variety of tasks. Due to the level of flexibility players have in reaching goals and the sheer level of difficulty in handling certain tasks within the time limit, multiple playthroughs may be needed to fully experience all of Beholder’s content. Those who enjoy simulation games that repeatedly apply pressure on the player through time limits and moral quandaries will appreciate Beholder, while those looking for an action game or something more relaxing may want to try a different type of simulation style game.

Publishers: Alawar Entertainment
Developers: Warm Lamp Games
Platforms: PC, Steam OS


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