Before Your Eyes
GoodbyeWorld Games · 2021 · Emotional, Narrative, Story Rich, Indie, First-Person
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About Before Your Eyes
Control your life story by blinking your real eyes in this innovative first-person narrative adventure aboard the Ferryman's ship to the afterlife. Relive precious memories and confront dark secrets through an emotional journey that explores impossible expectations and the regrets we carry, all told through a charming world and fully voice-acted story.
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
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The devs probably have an archive of thousands of people crying their eyes out. Absolutely unique.
This game has a very strong story and doesnt get boring. Its makes it more fun that it is reactive to blinking. Overall a very good game. 9/10
This has become one of my favorite games. The writting is incredible, with each scene being very immersive and giving a good idea of what the atmosphere is like, while also including a lot of symbolism that are free to interpretation. The story is also very emotional and the characters were well defined and their dialogue always felt purposeful. The games has interesting themes and the most defining one in my opinion is [spoiler]"the uncertainty of having lived a life that is good enough"[/spoiler]. I'm sure I will remember this experience and the meaning i found in it for the rest of my life. I think this game could be valuable to anyone, and with how short it is, it will not waste your time.
No game has ever made me feel the way this one has. It dug up some bad memories, but it made good ones. This is a truly fantastic game and the visuals and art style were genuinely beautiful, what's more- THE SOUNDTRACK. Holy, the soundtrack completely made the game and story even more impactful on my life. Lasting effects I have obtained after playing this? Piano music makes me sad. It felt good to cry as much as I did, however.
i don't like playing most video games. this is a really good one.
literally so good changed how i see everything and everyone i love this game so much
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