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Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Before Your Eyes is a emotional, narrative and story rich game developed by GoodbyeWorld Games and published by Skybound Games.
Released on April 08th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 16,978 reviews of which 16,623 were positive and 355 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.66€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Before Your Eyes into these genres:

Emotional Narrative Story Rich Indie First-Person Interactive Fiction Walking Simulator Singleplayer Adventure Cartoony Colorful Hand-drawn Psychological Surreal Mystery Philosophical Drama Cute Stylized Family Friendly

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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

MacOS

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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

There comes a time when a game just pulls you in, out of nowhere and you decide to try it. While this is a short 90 min game, It's the first time in a long time where I genuinely wept and was audible. The entire story is beautifully put together and you really just want to sit there and let the entire scene play out, but once you get half way through the constant twist and turns really hit you and you just keep on crying and crying to the point where you can't even breathe anymore. It's been so long since I felt this way and to say this game made me realise something about myself or my life in an understatement, the only issue I had was the whole "blinking" mechanic wasn't good and I just gave up blinking to progress because I wanted to experience the whole story and I did that after I changed to "click" instead of "blink" Whoever reads this, please buy and play this game, cry and then maybe you might change something about your life for the better, for the devs who made this game, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this, thank you for the masterful writing and making me feel the emotions I havn't felt for a long time playing.

Feb. 2025

I almost never cry with movies, and very rarely with games or music. I actually have a hard time physically crying in general. This one made me cry. The story is so good. I guess I'll replay it without the blinking feature so I can actually read everything, unfortunately I couldn't keep my eyes open for long enough in some parts haha.

Dec. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Nov. 2024

A beautiful and heartbreaking story. I cried so much... it felt so real, so close. The real masterpice during the whole story is the game itself. I wish I could erase my memory to play again for the first time.

June 2024

I do not normally write game reviews, or take the time too. "Before your eyes", has moved me enough to the point where I feel that i NEED to write a review. We spend so much time worrying about what we will become, instead of actually trying to become what we wish to. This well written story showed everyone who played, that time moves way too fast. Too fast so that when it is our time to leave this Earth, we realize all the things we weren't able to accomplish. Things we wish we could have been. We realize it is too late. We spend time doing things we don't necessarily enjoy, and don't do things we did enjoy. This story honestly connected with me so well. I am leaving for the military after i graduate in 2 weeks, and after I finished this game it had me in tears. I have spent a good amount of years on this Earth wasting my time. Not having direction. Realizing that i'm not in middle school anymore, and it's time I've stopped sitting around waiting for something good to happen in my life, I've stopped feeling bad for myself. This story will have you contemplating a lot of things, and sitting back and looking at your life, it really does go by in a blink. So to finish this review off, enjoy the time you have with family, one day you will be packing boxes, taking down the last picture off your wall, and throwing it the back of your car. It won't be a permanent goodbye, but it won't ever be the same again. Thank you for making this beautiful game. I bawled my eyes out, and it was an experience like no other.

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