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Before Your Eyes

Before Your Eyes - PC (Steam)

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Before Your Eyes is a first person narrative adventure which tells the story of a soul’s journey into the afterlife using a new and innovative form of interaction—your real-life blinks. The story begins after your death, aboard the ship of a mythical Ferryman tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. In order to help you pass on, he must first learn the story of your life. And so, he sends you back to relive your most important moments. The game uses your webcam to immerse you i...
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Developer:
GoodbyeWorld Games,
Publisher:
Skybound Games,
Release date:
Genre: Adventure, Indies,
Recent Steam reviews: Overwhelmingly positive (203)
All Steam reviews: Overwhelmingly positive (23583)
User tags*: emotional narrative story rich indie first-person interactive fiction walking simulator adventure cartoony colorful psychological philosophical hand-drawn surreal cute mystery stylized family friendly choices matter ...

Visuals

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Game features

Single-player
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Family Sharing

Description



Before Your Eyes is a first person narrative adventure which tells the story of a soul’s journey into the afterlife using a new and innovative form of interaction—your real-life blinks.

The story begins after your death, aboard the ship of a mythical Ferryman tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. In order to help you pass on, he must first learn the story of your life. And so, he sends you back to relive your most important moments.



The game uses your webcam to immerse you in this story in a way you've never experienced before. You will learn to control the flow of the narrative with your actual eyes–blinking through precious memories of family, first love, and the rise of an artistic career. But soon the Ferryman will suspect you aren't showing him everything he needs to see. So he will force you deeper into the dark recesses of your most repressed memories, ultimately revealing a heartbreaking truth.

By combining its innovative blink interaction mechanic with a charming world and a fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey—one about the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.

An earlier version of the game, titled Close Your, received the Game Developers Choice award at Indiecade and the Student Award at the Independent Game Awards (IGF), before receiving funding through a successful Kickstarter campaign.


CW: Before Your Eyes deals with themes of death, illness and grief

Configurations

  • Windows
  • MacOS

minimum*

  • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit and above
  • Processor: AMD Athlon X4 880K 4Ghz or Intel Pentium G4500 3.5Ghz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 or AMD Radeon Vega Integrated Graphics
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

recommended*

  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 1500X 3.5Ghz or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD RX 480, NVIDIA GTX 970, 4 GB of Video Memory and above
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

minimum*

  • OS: Mac OS 10.13 and up
  • Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel Iris Plus or Radeon Pro 450
  • Storage: 6 GB available space

recommended*

  • OS: Mac OS 10.13 and up
  • Processor: M1 or Intel Core i7
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: M1 integrated graphics
  • Storage: 6 GB available space

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10
Game review score based on 16 reviews, all languages included

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Before Your Eyes only lasts about an hour, but it left a mark far deeper than many games ten times its length. Using a webcam to track your blinks sounds like a simple gimmick at first, but it becomes one of the most powerful storytelling tools I’ve ever experienced. You don’t just watch memories pass—you lose them, accidentally, the same way life slips through your fingers.

The story unfolds quietly, gently, and then all at once. It reflects on time, regret, love, and the things we wish we had held onto longer. Every blink feels meaningful. Every moment feels fragile. By the end, I wasn’t just emotional—I cried like a baby, completely unprepared for how deeply it hit me.

This isn’t a game you play for mechanics or challenge. It’s something you experience in one sitting, preferably uninterrupted, and then think about long after the screen fades to black. Short, beautiful, and devastating in the best way. I’m really glad I let myself experience it the way it was meant to be played.
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Supported languages

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English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Spanish - Spain
Traditional Chinese