Beholder 2

Remember spying on your neighbors in the first game? Now let’s make it more complicated and throw politics into the mix. Welcome to a world of corporate absurdity, bureaucracy, and moral traps, where every choice can turn you into a hero… or a corpse.
You’re no longer just a bureaucrat; you’re part of a secret agency tasked with spying, manipulating, and occasionally ruining careers. Gameplay is more strategic: explore the office, collect dirt, decide who to help and who to betray, and think twice before pressing any button. Sometimes you just want to shout: “What kind of job is this? Did they slip me some psychotropic drugs?”
The world is cold, cynical, and often downright dark. Employees with secrets, ambitious bosses, laws no one understands. The black humor comes from the fact that you literally play as a tiny demon of bureaucracy: spy, manipulate, and survive while the world crumbles around you.
Verdict: Beholder 2 is for anyone who loves moral dilemmas, bureaucratic chaos, and devilishly dark humor. One wrong move, and you don’t just lose your job… you lose everything.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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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

This game is not for everyone. I only reccomend this because it's different. You'll need to take notes, have a spreadsheet open, & play like it's the 1980s. Unless you want to cheat & look up everything online. In which case you might as well not play. You'll fail & fail & fail again. 100 times. Some people may not like that level of difficulty. Save a few checkpoints & go back to different places & try different things. It's a game that is meant to be explored. Some situations have more than 1 solution & some situations once you've screwed up it's game over but you may have played 3 hours further before you realize it.

SPOILER: I played a few weeks into the game & decided since the option to seduce my coworker was there I should probably do it. I figured I'd gain info or leverage on her. I knew it was a risk financially, but I took it. However, what I didn't see coming was her having an STD & me getting an $800 bill. By the time I worked to pay off all my bills - I couldn't afford that one. They killed me for being behind on the bills (any bill you don't pay is instant death). So that one choice was death but it didn't play out until a week later. I had to reply the entire game & find another way to interact with her (becoming TV buddies or setting her up with someone else) in order to try & eliminate her).

Just like the first game, this is also such a masterpiece. Although i can see why many people dislike the sequel to beholder because its pretty different. But otherwise, the game still has a brilliant story to series.

the game is a big upgrade over the original in my opinion, but there is a constant need to save as frequently as possible in order to not get screwed. i do love the mocking tone of the game and how it makes fun of every selection in the aisle in terms of ideology. the creators are clearly well-versed in literature regarding political theory such as communism, marxism, & totalitarianism. the constant need to save for worst possible outcomes and severe over-reliance on loading screens in between gameplay segments are my biggest complaints but this basically does everything you could ask for in terms of a sequel to the original beholder.

Slight recommend, the game gets less interesting the farther into it you get Imo (first floor is really the best floor Imo) and I feel like it really does suffer from things feeling repetitive after a bit, but the story is intriguing enough to get me to finish the game. Mostly only recommend playing if you really liked the original Beholder. Also, ngl, I think this is the worst Beholder game in terms of its visuals.