Every Beholder game, ranked
All 2 Beholder games we hold, spanning 2016 to 2018: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 39,184 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Beholder (GamingPickz Score 7.8), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Beholder games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Beholder games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Beholder
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.8GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceBeholder at a glance Released 2016 Studio Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) Player sentiment 92% positive of 31,040 Critics 75/100 Price $13.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 1.56 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 92% shrinks to 91.9 on 31,040 reviews, then blends with the 75 critic aggregate, giving 7.8.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 1.56 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 92 against 75. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 2
Beholder 2
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceBeholder 2 at a glance Released 2018 Studio Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) Player sentiment 87% positive of 8,144 Critics 76/100 Price $17.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 4 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 87% shrinks to 86.8 on 8,144 reviews, then blends with the 76 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 4 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Beholder game we can score is Beholder at 7.8. The lowest is Beholder 2 at 7.4, a 0.4-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Beholder at $13.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Beholder, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Beholder entries on Steam:
- Verified: Beholder, Beholder 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Beholder games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Beholder series, game by game
Every Beholder game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2016
- 2018
Beholder 2
7.4You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make! (Steam)
Beholder, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Beholder vs other series
How Beholder stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Beholder games are there?
We hold 2 Beholder games in the catalogue, released between 2016 and 2018. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Beholder game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Beholder rates highest at 7.8. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Beholder games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2016 to 2018. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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