Beholder: Conductor

An extremely linear and downright un-original game. The devs really wanted to make "Papers Please!", but now in a train, but missed out big time. Timers don't really pose a challenge as you will be fast-forwarding most of the time, situations that have two ways of being done ALWAYS have one wrong and one right answer, so there really is no choice, and most of the items you can get from the shop or kitchen are unusable. Not to mention it has pretty much nothing to do with previous games. Really wasted my time on an extremely linear "Papers, Please!" wannabe. 3/10

Foreword: I bought all 4 Beholder Titles. I played 1-3 Back-to-Back, I took a break and came into Conductor fresh. This was a pretty interesting design concept, because rather than people living within your building we now have Train Cabins and a sense of Urgency because what happens when people reach their designated stop? You know what happens? Nothing. Because the sense of urgency and the ever-pressing time crunch really did ruin this title for me, it was an anxiety race for the first 2-3hrs, and then mind-numbing as more and more carriages were emptyy or lacking any story based reason to visit. Beholder: Conductor for me was another experiment that the Devs took, much like with 2, to take the game in to a new direction and I appreciate that because it's not as if Game 4 (5 with DLC) could be yet another tower block/boarding house is it? People would complain "We've done this before!" so I appreciate taking the game in a new direction, it's just that for me this didn't really feel as good as 1 or 3. It's DEEEEEEFINITELY better than 2 though, because despite being on a train it wasn't Linear! (I'm sure that Puns been made dozens of times in other reviews...)