Daily Connect (Child Care)

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The Beholder app is the mobile version of a popular PC and console game that pits citizens against one another in a totalitarian state. Tasked by the government to surveil an apartment complex’s tenants, players collect and review evidence to flush out any traitors in the Big Brother simulation of Beholder.

Rated for players ages 12 and older, Beholder is $2.99 to download and features additional in-app purchases.  This app can be found in both the App Store and the Google Play Store.

Perfect for those who wish to simulate life in a communist state, Beholder tasks players with spying on fellow citizens. Players assume the identity of Carl, a State-installed apartment building superintendent whose covert mission is to spy on the tenants and report back to the State.

Carl has assumed the position of the previous superintendent after the State took them for “Unkown Reasons.” Thus, players have a shadow over their head throughout the game knowing that they, too, may be seized by the State, never to be heard from again.

Players have to tend to the needs of the apartment building and its tenants, in the form of maintenance and various other requests, as well as surveiling the tenants and reporting any suspicious or illegal activity.

The sophisticated part of the Beholder app is that every character within the game is fully developed. Each character has a past that effects both their present and their future.

Playing as Carl, players can change the game outcome with every choice they make, which causes a ripple effect. Players can choose to be empathetic towards the tenants or report with an iron fist, but either way, those decisions will predict the path of the Beholder game they’re playing.

However, players who are too empathetic towards the plight of their tenants can find themselves and their family being punished by the State.