Games Like Before Your Eyes

Before Your Eyes

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.

★ HOW WE GOT HERE ★ CONTROL, I'M NOT COMING BACK ★ THE MAGNIFICENT TRUFFLEPIGS ★ EMPATHY: PATH OF WHISPERS ★ SUMMERLAND ★ AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE ★ THE FABLED WOODS ★ THE FIDELIO INCIDENT ★ THE BERLIN APARTMENT ★ LAKE RIDDEN ★ DEAR ESTHER ★ THALASSA: EDGE OF THE ABYSS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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How We Got Here

85% 👍 OF 571
About This Game

You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Floating Islands
  • …Move Objects to Solve
  • …Meet Other Survivors
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back

98% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Move Without Reversing
  • …Meet Voyager 1
  • …Walk Through Shifting Worlds
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The Magnificent Trufflepigs

55% 👍 OF 172
About This Game

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

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Empathy: Path of Whispers

60% 👍 OF 220
About This Game

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

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Summerland

91% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Unlock Memory Doors
  • …Investigate Crime Scenes
  • …Clean Up Crime Scenes
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As Long As You're Here

100% 👍 OF 558
About This Game

What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Follow Daily Reminders
  • …Tend Plants and Knit
  • …Explore Family Keepsakes
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The Fabled Woods

65% 👍 OF 324
About This Game

Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.

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The Fidelio Incident

78% 👍 OF 849
About This Game

The Fidelio Incident is a single-player, first-person thriller set off the coast of Iceland. Inspired by Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. After a violent plane crash, Stanley must search a desolate frozen island in search of his wife Leonore while covering up any traces of their bloody Irish past.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search for Leonore
  • …Find Scattered Manuscripts
  • …Cover Your Past
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Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss

89% 👍 OF 373
About This Game

Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.