Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Beholder 3
Developer Paintbucket Games
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying. From the Steam store page
188 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
106 positive · 75 negative
95% range 51–65%
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| Steam reviews | 106 | 75 | 0 |
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7 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,860 of 2,883 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 188 · most liked firstI will leave the cat here, so that everybody who passes by can pet it and give it a thumbs up and awards ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really, really loved Beholder and Blissful Sleep and I'm cautiously optimistic for Beholder Conductor. This game, unfortunately, really let me down. The gameplay loop remains pretty fun, but the writing and bugs sink this game. The first Beholder and Blissful Sleep are masterclasses in efficient, environmental storytelling. The characters are unexpectedly complex, even the tutorial character who became one of my favorites of the series (Jacob) gains shocking depth in the prequel. None of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not blindly trust the negative reviews! I was sceptical going into the third game based on all the negative reviews, but after 17 hours, having 100%'d the game, I can safely say that the game, at least for me, does not suffer from any game-breaking bugs, and it has many improvements/QoL changes over the first, being to me what should have been the sequel. If you loved the first game's gameplay loop, the whole apartment management/spying/reporting, with side-quests and a bit of intrigue into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By the time of this review, this game has been on the market for 3,5 years. The amount of game breaking bugs I encountered is just making it frustrating. The fact that they are still there after 3,5 years says a lot. It's a no for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A straight downgrade from the first game; they made the overall game play easier and less punishing, however they also severely restricted how the story can progress. A lot of the quests involve the illusion of choice, it's as if it was Mihoyo who made the game. Your choices don't matter in the ending of the game, or how the story of the nation (government vs new government vs anarchy) progresses. They don't even bother explaining what happens in the end to them. Failure to comply with random…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →English isn't my native language, so please forgive any grammatical errors or inconsistencies. I really enjoy the 'Beholder Series', but I must criticize 'Beholder 3'. The graphics are significantly improved this time, but a multitude of bugs have left me bewildered. For example, some stuttering requires restarting the game to fix, interactive actions require constantly zooming in and out to click. In some places, you can even get stuck on stairs. YES ! ! ! Reloading the save file doesn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointed. I wish I'd have known how much reading there was beforehand, so I could have bought a good book instead. I really liked the original. Especially with how you have to learn the story by investigating and snooping around. You can tell they tried to merge beholder 1 (managing a residential building) and beholder 2 (rising through the ranks at the government) into one, but this game went overboard on dialogue. I spent way too much time reading and it turns out the story wasn't even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is quite a few bugs. Mainly, you can't reload a save. It will just stop the time passing, make talking to NPC's impossible. I've had to restart so many times. I never want to play this game again. Honestly a shame, the other two were fantastic. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't usually complain on bugs, but this is just unplayable. As many described, after loading a previous save, you can't talk to any NPC anymore and there is nothing that you can do. This is just unacceptable to sell a game in that state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the game is fun, but it was really buggy when I played it. I loaded a previous save and then suddenly I couldn't talk to any of the NPCs and they were all just frozen not moving. I like the game but I don't recommend due to how buggy it is after almost 3 years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry, but Beholder 2 was a work of art and this is not. If you like fiddling with UI and having gaps in the story and a rather frustrating storyline, then fill your boots, but after the fun of Beholder 1 and the artistic genius of Beholder 2 this fell a bit flat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely the weakest of all three games in basically all aspects. There's a lot of lag, even on the lowest settings, the storyline is not very engaging and the tasks are... certainly something. To (try to) make it short: Beholder 3 throws all kinds of different tasks at you. So it's not like in Beholder 1 where your job is primarily to spy on your tenants as a landlord or like in Beholder 2 where you need to do beaurocratic work as a worker of the ministry, but it basically mixes the two…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After spending 10+ hours finishing this game, I must say I am a little disappointed. The good part of the game is that this game still greatly focuses on the choices between kind and evil in humanity. However, this advantage can be seen as a disadvantage as this 3rd game is just a simple combination of the 1st(you act as a landlord) and the 2nd one(you act as an administration officer). To put it in another way, what i feel pity is that the game lack innovative ideas compared to the previous…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LOVED BEHOLDER 1 and BEHOLDER CONDUCTOR this is not as good as those games, or at least I cant tell because every time I come back to the game its bugged and I cant talk to NPC's also the time is bugged out so residents never leave their apartments or advance the day in any way. Unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice combination of Part 1+2. Good Story and a great 10hrs enjoyment. Just one wish: How about a DLC with some additions to get an endless mode after the story ends. But probably to much for the small player base I guess :(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like spying on my neighbors and coworkers and blackmailing them for money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A single ray of hope is enough to add color to a cold, monochrome world and warm it. 희망.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played the previous Beholder games with great pleasure, and though this one at first glance looked to be another great game, I was left a bit disappointed. First of all it is full of bugs, fortunately I didn’t have to make a new game in order to get the bugs to disappear, but I had to quit the game altogether a bunch of times. I even got issues not being able to move to the right with “D”, like at all? What a weird bug. In order to hunt all the achievements, you have always had to do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beholder 3 is every bit as good as the first game. I struggled with how linear Beholder 2 was and thus did not find it to be as good of a game. Beholder 3 returns to the darkness that made the first game so good. Beholder 3 has multiple endings, missable achievements and missions, and your choices definitely matter. The reason I give it a thumbs down is because Beholder 3 is plagued with bugs. I encountered situations where I would press "E" but it simply would not give me the options to enter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the Beholder series for the storylines and ideas behind everything. That being said, it is also important that the game works as intended. As much as the story and game mechanics were really enjoyable for my time playing through the game, the amount of bugs that caused me to have to reload old saves were extremely discouraging. I still enjoyed my time, but to sell this at a list price of $17.99 with how many bugs and issues there are is heinous, you guys. Either fix the bugs or drop…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's unplayable due to a crash that has been reported since at least 2023 and the devs have done nothing about. The game freezes and/or crashes after the mission "On The Rise". Up until the crash it's been an okayish ride, despite a big drop in quality of the dialogue compared to the previous two installments of the game. It's apparent that the writers did not possess the depth of knowledge about day-to-day interactions in totalitarian states that was demonstrated by their predecessors.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The amount of game breaking bugs makes it unenjoyable - in only one playthrough I had to go back several hours due to bugs making it impossible to progress.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a rush disaster hopefully the next game is actually good
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a great game don't get me wrong, I got it while it was on sale and from a bundle, But if its normally priced i would not get it. There is to many bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beholder 1 was amazing, the two was incredible, but this one shouldn't be played if you want to keep intact your love for this franchise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well... The game was made by another team which is apparent. The entire atmosphere of the game is off-putting. The optimization is terrible. After the first two games, this one leaves you disappointed and confused as to why it was even created. Other major CONs: 1. The whole gameplay loop is just a copy-paste of Beholder 1 & 2 but dumbed down; 2. The family members of the MC are annoying, irritating, self-centered imbeciles whom you can't even arrest (unlike Beholder 1); 3. The role-playing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game breaking bug stopped me from ever completing the game. 8 hours in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I had fun with the game the way too many bugs ruin the experience. And I definitely got them all: The pounds instead of a clock, the broken save system that names your saves randomly if you do not have any quests or you do not track any at the current time, game refuses to let me rest and wakes me up after a couple hours no matter how many hours I set it to rest, quests starting without even having the tenant in any of my apartments and many more. You guys that leave positive reviews…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's ok for new players but meh for fans of the series. the 3d style was nice and fun, but hitboxes got annpying sometimes. mixing mechanics and places from first and second parts of the series got me hooked, but there wasn't enough space to execute any of them well. the story was a bit boring and was lacking the typical beholder humor/vibe. the characters felt flat, so i had zero empathy for them, which then led to having no moral dilemma during important choices. the gameplay was repetetive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Past me would be very surprised to learn this, but I actually recommend this game. It's not as in-depth as its predecessors, and some of the endings may be obvious from the moment you complete certain tasks, but it's an overall fun game. The characters are unique and engaging (yes, even Sabine), and the plot is pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so fun, but not when it keeps crashing. I can not even finish the game because it keeps crashing at the same time in-game. On the dot, 10:25. I got so far into the game too. I have tried everything to fix this problem from reinstalling the game to playing it on a different computer. It does not work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no comment on the content of the game. The biggest problem is buggy game. When Ioading the file save in the game the game activities is freeze and beside interacting on the storage or fixing things, other things like interacting with the NPC is impossible. The most terrible thing is when I move between stairs, I got stuck and can't do anything to fix it. I highly don't recommend this game to anybody until the developers really give updates to fix it or any replies that satisfy players.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I already got a game breaking bug in the first 30 minutes. Don't buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the beginning the game was fun, but the game started to crash frequently at certain missions, where reloading saves wouldn't fix them and you would basically have to start a whole new save hoping you don't get another crash. !SPOILER WARNING! Two examples I have experienced where crashing basically prevented me from playing the game includes: 1. It was a couple missions before the end of the game, but when I reached the apartment, one of the tenants would walk up the stairs resulting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still quite a few bugs in this mediocre triquel in 2024. There's a bug where sometimes, you load an earlier save, the time freezes and you could do two things: Jack and ♥♥♥♥, and Jack has left town. The other bug I found is with a questline, "School Problems", where you can accidentally eliminate an NPC colleague without knowing he will be part of that questline later on, resulting in the questline inexplicitly failing without you knowing why. And when I did find out that he's involved in that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beholder 2 was a great improvement over the first one, offering a lot of fun with its engaging gameplay and story. However, Beholder 3, despite being enjoyable, feels like a downgrade. The game really makes it challenging to play as the "good guy", as it often punishes moral choices, forcing players onto a less ethical path to avoid multiple game-ending scenarios.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →worse than 1st one , better than 2nd one its kinda good do not buy it unless its on discount
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe this game gets good later on (though I've consistently heard the *opposite* is true with late-game crashes and more game-breaking bugs), but in less than an hour of playing I experience frequent and very annoying stuttering in my FPS and then a bug that seemed to break the game by removing my ability to interact with NPCs. I barely got into any gameplay so I can't really comment on it, but the few bits of dialogue I got from my family and some tenants seemed fine I guess. The game looks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beholder 1, but worse
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked it, but there was a bug that locked my progress and I had no save to fall back on. Mentioned this in the forums, but even after weeks there was no fix and restarting wasn't an option for me since I was far into the game already, so I dropped it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The premise remains much the same as the previous Beholders, you play the part of a cog within the wheels of a totalitarian state who through unfortunate circumstances ends up demoted to the position of a State Housing Manager and becomes embroiled in the intrigues of the Ministry. The narrative remains compelling but the mechanics of surveillance take more of a backseat, theft generates more money than being a state informant and the flow of gameplay is marred by numerous bugs - from saves…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A MASSIVE downgrade from the first game. If you liked Beholder 1, you might be disappointed with this game. Everything is just worse. From the characters to the story. If you don't believe me, buy it and see for yourself. As you can see from my playtime, I gave up in the first 30 minutes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥. BUGGY AND AHH GAME
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is cool, but it doesn't compare to the first one or Conductor. 6/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →okay, I genuinely don't know why people don't like this game. Its GREAT. maybe one of my favorite games. I barely find any glitches like other people are saying. I would HEAVILY recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kim, your own daughter looks like and talks like Sweet Baby Inc's CEO. I don't like it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've only played for a little over an hour so far but holy hell this game exceeded my expectations from it. The first game was so good, and I was a little disappointed by the second game because it was just so much different (and a little worse) from the first game, but then the third game was basically the first but refined. I am very happy that I got this game and I hope it continues to be good :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still completely buggy after 2 years of release
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a far cry from the previous two games of the series.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →В плане основной локации — возвращение к корням. Но смена разработчика очень чувствуется, уже не так фаново как раньше )
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is alright, is defenitly the worst of the series, it is buggy it does not give you clear instructions for most of the missions and if you are an achivement hunter there are a lot of bugged achivements. I could not even get an ending since the ending i was going for required a lot of money and after some days without getting missions i saw that the only options left where blackmail (which if you get fined you lose money) and profiles which does not give a lot of money. So briefly,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its buggy and your decisions do not really matter
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post your first RPG Probably Eye of the Beholder 3: short lived experience as I kept losing, and my 386 was too slow to reload/restart the game. Painfully put me off RPGs for a few years... until Diablo 1
unlabelledView post →Well, good game, but not worth the full price. You have to make difficult choices. You can either try to help everybody or backstab them. But even with helping it is not always the end you would hope so. Bugs: Transport from and to the ministry has known lag issues. The same goes when switching the monitoring view between those two places. The lady who wants an abortion is sometimes invisible. After finishing the Kim story and reloading to an earlier state, the camera stays in conversation…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no idea if the gameplay and story is any good since I think it's unplayable. Everytime I try to load my save the game just stops time. I usually try to use saves to avoid getting caught by the tenents when breaking into their apartments but since I can't load any of my saves correctly I just get frustrated and shut the game down
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game about a year ago as soon as i saw it. For some reason i couldn't find time to play it till now and holy s**t dude what the freak is this optimization ? I'm getting constant fps drops with a rtx 3060. I don't know if it has anything to do with the ''overlay dll'' error but game's literally unplayable in the current state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even though this game is seen as the worst one in the franchise, i think it has its own charm. I like the story, the representation between different beliefs in each scenario and so on. I reccomend this game to those who like the Beholder franchise in general and also to those who like a little harder challenge to maintain all those tasks togheter. Also Stephen Hubert is peak
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just to start I really like this game and all its offers. It's theme and style is excellent and well done, it's music is distinct and engaging, but overall its game play loop and mechanism is superb. I would love to give it a full positive review however I am unable to finish the game due to the fact it keeps crashing at a certain section of the game. I have tried reaching out to the team through discord as a formal inquiry for customer support is not open. I have also tried fixing this problem…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →اللعب ممتع وفكرة اللعبة و قصتها حلوة لكن ! كانت تجربة محبطة , اللعبة فقدت لمستها ، شخصيات سطحية والكلام كثير بدون معنى ، حتى العائلة ما حسيت بـ ارتباط معهم ، تخلص مهمة وتتفاجأ إنها فشلت .. عنجد احبااط ⭐ 2.5 \ 5 - 3 ساعات
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →literally everyone's mind is probably plagued by the same kind of doubts whenever they wonder whether they shall give this game a try. and what shall i say? you very much should. it combines both Beholder and Beholder 2 in a way. this is what i like the most gameplay-wise: you can't really get bored too much, you gotta pay attention to this and that, bills are incoming, you run between the Ministry and the house you're taking care of, you choose between your blasted tenants and the family -…
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