Before Your Eyes
A first person narrative adventure which tells the story of a soul’s journey into the afterlife using your real-life blinks.
Before Your Eyes is an adventure developed by GoodbyeWorld Games, released 8 April 2021 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Before Your Eyes is
Before Your Eyes is an adventure game developed by GoodbyeWorld Games and released in 2021. It was published by Netflix. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2018.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 11 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Before Your Eyes holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 87 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $1.00 per hour of the main story, or $0.66 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 880K 4Ghz or Intel Pentium G4500 3.5Ghz, 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 520 or AMD Radeon Vega Integrated Graphics. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Before Your Eyes launched on 8 April 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139.... It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139....
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Before Your Eyes yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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