Beholder review: no fun for cogs in Orwellian machine

By Tim Biggs
Updated January 17 2017 - 11:13am, first published 10:50am
<i>Beholder</i>'s art style, while simple, works well with the feeling of oppression.
<i>Beholder</i>'s art style, while simple, works well with the feeling of oppression.

Clearly modelled after a grim nanny-state vision of Russia, Beholder tasks players with balancing two opposing goals: run an apartment building as a respectable landlord who is liked by his tenants, and keep your government employers happy by constantly monitoring, reporting and spying on said tenants.