Before Your Eyes
First-person narrative adventure where your blinks move memories forward
GoodbyeWorld Games, Nice Dream · Published by Skybound Games · Released Apr 8, 2021
- Reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 98% of 24K
- Recent reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 95% of 286 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 6
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 years ago
- Oct 18, 2022
What is Before Your Eyes?
In this first-person narrative adventure, you revisit moments from a life while a ferryman asks for its story before guiding a soul to the afterlife. Webcam-detected blinks move you through scenes of family, first love, and an artistic career.
For you if...
- +you enjoy short, emotional single-player stories
- +you want your blinks to control when scenes advance
Not for you if...
- −you prefer action to a story told through memories
- −you avoid stories about death, illness, and grief
What players say
98% of 23,949 reviews are positive · 95% of 286 in the last 30 days
Players praise the story's emotional impact and the way blinking controls its pace. Some find the story too short or its characters underdeveloped, while others report unreliable eye tracking and crashes.
Screenshots and trailer
Before Your Eyes system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 64-bit and above
- Processor
- AMD Athlon X4 880K 4Ghz or Intel Pentium G4500 3.5Ghz
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics 520 or AMD Radeon Vega Integrated Graphics
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 1500X 3.5Ghz or equivalent
- Graphics
- AMD RX 480, NVIDIA GTX 970, 4 GB of Video Memory and above
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 11
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
Tags
- Emotional
- Narrative
- Story Rich
- Indie
- First-Person
- Interactive Fiction
- Singleplayer
- Walking Simulator
- Adventure
- Cartoony
- Colorful
- Psychological
- Philosophical
- Hand-drawn
- Surreal
- Cute
Recent updates
- Oct 18, 2022 · Eye Detection Fix (Patch for Windows Version)
- May 19, 2022 · Mac M1 Patch
- Apr 24, 2021 · PATCH 1.2.6.2 is now LIVE!
- Apr 15, 2021 · Achievement Bug Fix
1 DLC available.
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