Aka's Beholder Guide

I'm making this guide because I'm not seeing any guides as of yet. I think this is a great game and it deserves to be experienced all the way through. I still have alot to discover about it myself but I'll update this as I learn more. Hope I can help you guys out. Keep in mind that this guide is for if you get stuck, I highly suggest you play through the game without spoilers because you'll have a much better experience that way. I promise to try and leave out what spoilers I can while making this.

Things You Should Know Before Playing.

I'll leave the in-game tutorial to do its job as you should go through it if your new. It's not long if your wondering that. I'm just going to go over some basic game mechanics and give tips. (No big spoilers here don't worry)

First of all, I would you play using your own morales and not try to enact any playstyle based on how you think the person your playing as acts. The game allows you to play the game how you want to, atleast in some ways so choose your own character for Carl.

Second, if you missed something on the tutorial and you want to know more about a specific thing then go to the phone in your office and and click on references.

Third, If you ever feel like your being rushed or you need time to think just click the pause button at the top left of the screen. The game will allow you to look through your journal while the game is paused. Same for if you want to hurry things up, the fastforward button is just above the pause button.

Fourth, If you are in a hurry to get something done, double click on the place you want Carl to go and he will run there.

Fifth, don't feel like you have to do the ministries tasks immediatly(atleast not towards the beginning of the game) They will for the most part give you mutiple days to finish tasks that shouldn't take nearly that long. Spend that extra time talking with people or searching and placing cameras around.

Sixth, As of yet there is no manuel saving, only autosaves when each mission begins.

Seventh, If you want to start the game from the beggining and you've seen the intro a million times
just hold the left mouse button down and it will count down from 3 skipping the video.(Took me awhile to figure that out..)

Eighth, When using evidence in reports etc. The Evidence can only be used once and will dissapear afterwards, so you can't blackmail someone with something and report them anyway after they pay you unless you catch them again.

Ninth, When people move out(on their own or for the good of the motherland..) their apartment rooms must be repaired and cannot be entered. If you are wondering if your cameras are going to still be in there when someone else moves in the answer is yes.

Tenth, just a tip, try and keep atleast one room vacant when possible as you never know when the ministry will force you to house a guest. Failing to do so will result in gameover.

Eleventh, This game is real tough with it's money situation, and I believe theres a reason for that.
Save your money when you think you should. Not everything has to be bought, even mission related things, Use your own judgement and morales.

Characters(Incomplete)

Anna Stein
40yrs old
Carl's Wife

Patrick Stein
17yrs old
Carl & Anna's Son and University Student

Martha Stein
6yrs old
Carl & Anna's Daughter

Maria Schimmer
35yrs old
Klaus Schimmer's Wife and Literature Teacher

Klaus Schimmer
40yrs old
Maria Schimmer's Husband and Tabacco Salesmen

Alloisius Shpak
47yrs old
Doctor

Rosa Ranek
71yrs old
Mark Ranek's Wife and Cafeteria Cook

Mark Ranek
65yrs old
Rosa Ranek's Husband and Archive Employee

Jones Popanedo
40yrs old
Coal Barge Bosun

Dora Noel
29yrs old
Music Teacher

Fulfledle Brukich
20yrs old
University Student

George Danton
Age Unknown

Leo Gvizdek
45yrs old
Lottery Winner

Antoine Grubic
45yrs old
Printing office master

Crime and Punishment

Ok so first of all for anyone who is stuck on this, No the guy isn't going to show up, and you don't need him to finish the first three tasks. Planting cameras should be easy by now right? You should also know how to search by now or atleast it should be easy to figure out. Gathering the data is what tripped me up the first day I played Beholder. All you have to do is click on the items that you find in his room. When you do, A text should appear below telling you what the item is. If the text is red then it is something you need to record(this can mean it is either a item worth profiling to the ministry, or an illegal item which can be used to file reports) You have to click on the text to record it.
Once you do that, go talk on the phone with the ministry and he will appear. You can find out what he looks like by going to your profile tab in your journal and clicking on the photo across from Apartment 2, or just simply waiting for him to walk in the apartment. (Tenents only go into their own apartments rooms by the way) Don't go in when he's in there as he will just kick you out. Instead, watch him through the camera and through peeking through the door. Remember to keep new directives in mind as that will be how you get in out of your place. If you see a red speech bubble over him it means hes doing something illegal. Click on the bubble to gather the evidence.
Once you've done that then you can report it. To report something, go to your desk in your office room and click on the journal button. Click write a report, and be sure to enter the information correctly or you will be fined. The journal can be accessed to help you. everything should be simple to fill out, the only thing that confused me at first was the "From:" part. It just means what year the order was issued. So for example, 6037 was from 01.09.84(All you have to worry about is the first two numbers) After that your not done, be sure to attach the evidence. Just go to the profile tab and click on Jacob Manishek's photo. Drag the item from the evidence collected section and place it in the report. Then you can send it and see the result.

Fun fact: Feel like getting alittle more cash out of this. Blackmail him with the evidence. he will leave $1000(of whatever currency this game implies) in the plant next to his door. Keep in mind that evidence can only be used once though, meaning you can't write a report anymore. I learned thought that in this situation atleast, thats not a problem because you can quickly catching him doing the same thing again and use it a second time.

Trust and care

Note: I'm not 100% sure yet but I believe this is entirely optional to complete.

This mission envoles three parts:

1. Find Patrick some economic books
To do this I found two ways, either buy them from Nathan(The apple dealer tophat guy), or be social for once and ask the tall thin guy Klaus Schimmer for them and he will give you it.

2. Find Martha's doll "Naira" and give it to her
Hint: You dont have to look far for it. And no it's not the teddybear thats in plain sight.

3. Get a saucepan for your wife Anna
Maria Schimmer will give you it if you ask her.

Evicting Schimmer

Once you get the order you have a few ways of doing this.

1.Look through he wardrobes and you will find something illegal. I'll let you figure out what to do from there.

2. Buy something illegal from Mr.Tophat(Nathan) and plant it in his room. Be sure to click on the text when you do this.

3. Blackmail him twice, or blackmail him and Maria once. Ask him what has happened and he will leave.

Another maybe possible way: Tell him the trust and help him escape. To do this you need help from Mark Ranek who will want some whiskey for his services.(Can be bought from Nathan) After getting what Schimmer needs from Ranek, give it to him and he will need a plan of escape. Talk to Jones Popanedo for this, who will want you to do a "special deal with him" he asks you to sell some things for him and return the profit. Nathan will take it without much arguement.(He will leave and give you the money the next day) When he arrives the next day though he will tell you that he could only get half the money. Return to Jones and he will become angry and you can say a fe different things in response. That's as far as I got. I've tried every option to see if one works but none do so maybe I did something wrong? Try it out if you want to see if you can get this way to work.

Saving Martha

WARNING: SPOILERS HERE

I suggest you be commited if you really want to achieve this as it is very expensive to complete.

Part 1:
This should begin around the time you need to evict Schimmer. You have 240hrs to do that so don't worry about that being a priority. Your wife Anna should soon have an explanation point over here head.(meaning she wants something) Ask her whats wrong and she will tel you that Martha is sick and that she needs aspirin. You can find the aspirin be sold by Nathan($465) or you can possibly steal some from tenents. Give the aspirin to Anna. The mission will seem like its done then but there is still alot you have to do.(It would be kinda lame if it ended there anyway)

Part 2: Talk to Anna again later and she will say that the aspirin failed and that Martha needs a doctor. Go ask Alloisius(A Tenent) for help and he will examine her.

Part 3: After waiting a little bit, ask Alloisius about the exam. He will tell you that you need imported Antibiotics ASAP, and that the medicine isn't cheep.($20,000) You will then have 92 hours to gather up the money and give it to him. I would suggest trying to get that amount before triggering the mission.

Part 4: Alloisius will walk off with the money and return sometime later. When he does, ask him about it. He will give it to you tasking you to give it to Anna.

Part 5: When you give it to Anna she will ask that you get Martha an apple. Get the apple($720) from Nathan as well as the heater($2250) because she will need that too. Give Anna the apple and talk to her again.

Part 6: She will ask for heater this time. Give her the heater.

Part 7: Talk to her again. Now Martha needs cough syrup.. Go ask Nathan about it. He will say that it's expensive and that he will need $15,000. Pull a miricle and hand him the $15,000 and he will just hand it to you.. Without going to get it. Give Anna the medicine and YOUR DONE!
you saved Martha. Good job.

Repairs

This should be fairly simple to complete. If you knock on people's doors and tell them your repairing things they'll let you in. Just remember that the Cabinetmaker's Kit fixes furniture and the Electrician's Kit fixes appliances such as phones, tv's etc.

The Bomb(Not official mission name)

You'll find the bomb in the left washing machine. Once you take it out it will start a timer and you won't have much time if you panic.

Go straight to the phone and call the ministry. they will send you a manuel. go to the mail box and read the defusal instructions. you need to do that first to interact with the bomb. it will say:
Way 1:cut the wires in the order of red green black blue
Way 2:cut the wires in the order of blue red black green
Way 3:cut the wires in the order of green black blue red

I'm not sure if its different everytime but I tried the first way and it worked. Just go to the bomb after the mailbox and the defuse option should be there.

Achievements

Not a Big Dealer : "Report the drug maker"(Jacob Manishek)
-Complete the first mission Crime and Punishment

White Papers, Black Mails : "Write a blackmailing letter"
-Write a blackmail letter at your desk using evidence you collect

Family Guy : "Get on track with your family"
-Finish the mission Trust and care

I Choose Violence : "Dishouse Klaus Shimmer in a hard way"
-Get Klaus Schimmer arrested

Die Like You Mean : "It Be killed by a tenant"
-Have a tenant kill you. I won't spoil what happens but the way I earned this is by getting Patrick arrested.

Money Earning

The best way I think to earn money is to use as much free time as you can to blackmail people. Look through their apartments for illegal things or if you have to, buy cheep illegal things from Nathan and plant them in peoples rooms. Its very important to spend your money wisely and save it when possible.

Note on Bugs

I've read through the discussions and saw many people complaining over bugs they have experienced and just want to give my take on it. So far I haven't experienced any bugs. I thought I had whenever I get stuck but It always just turned out to be me misinterpureting something. All I can say is make sure you read the text closely and if your sure its a bug then load the mission over and try it again. If things still arn't working for you then report it in the discussions(but please be nice about it). Hope that helps.

Funny Story

This isn't a informative thing just something I really wanna share. Spoilers by the way.
So I was playing, searching through good old granny Rosa's room like a Beholder should when all of a sudden I couldn't move. I got confused until I realized something was about to happen but I couldn't guess what. Anna walks into the room. I get even more confused. Anna PULLS OUT A GUN. I just still there looking at my screen in shock. She shoots me and I lay dead on the ground. But what happened next made me burst out laughing. Rosa walks in. She is in shock, not because there is a dead person in the room and another with a gun. No no, shes angry because i'm in her room. She walks over to me and yells at me while Anna watches. At that point, I ceased to be dead and stand back up at which time I apoligize for snooping through her room and walk out. The screen cuts to black and gameover. So I guess Carl is still alive. I think thats deserving of an achievement if only I could do it again. :)

Ending Note

If you still have questions or you see spelling mistakes, grammer mistakes, wrong information, etc then let me know and i'll fix whats wrong. Keep in mind that I'm not an expert at this game, I'm just sharing what I know. I don't have ALL the answers.. P.S. DON'T BE RUDE IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE..

[Aka]

To Babanneakut and Huzzy:
How dare you, banned for racism

[Medic stares into your soul]

@ the person 2 below me: If the Ministry hears about the woman who the doctor wants to be gone (who isn't registered on official documents) the cops will come knocking. Do not file any reports regarding her or else Big Brother will notice a discrepancy and get your ass.

[Huzzy]

Nice Guides

[vampireskoolgrl]

As far as evicting shimmer it is possible to help him leave you just have a lot of steps. You have to get their documents from reniek by giving him wiskey then waiting. then youhave to move in the doctor (i recomend doing this first cause he can give you wiskey) Then youhave to finish the quest of finding him a woman and then when he wants to be rid of her you have to evict her and then get cruise tickets form the doctor and give them to schimmer and they will both leave. But i keep getting a game over from embessalment and not sure if any of that is why

[Christie]

I am stucked on the evaluation. Can't pass and cannot leave the country without being killed with my family. Please help.

[Hi]

this is so helpful!

[Weepier]

this is so helpful!

[tachoe]

Can't you get a happier ending with the Schimmers? I thought you get could get cruise tickets and give them to them.

[↑→↓↓↓]

The schimmier eviction can have a happier ending i think. If you manage to get ALloisuis to be gone before that by making his girl steal his jewels, he will give you a pair of cruise tickets. Which may give schimmer a non dead ending.

[碳酸酸酸·酸]

。。。不会英语的悲剧