Before Your Eyes is a first-person narrative adventure about a soul’s passage toward the afterlife. After death, the player is aboard a ship with a mythical Ferryman, who sends them back through important moments in their life to learn their story. Family, first love and an artistic career form part of those memories, while the narrative also turns toward painful experiences and regret.
Its defining interaction uses a webcam to detect the player’s real-life blinks. Rather than simply watching scenes unfold, players use their eyes to influence the flow of the narrative, blinking through memories as the Ferryman seeks to understand what happened. That physical input gives the game’s storytelling an unusual, intimate design: the act of looking and blinking is tied directly to revisiting a life. The story is fully voice-acted, and it addresses death, illness and grief.
The store lists Before Your Eyes as a single-player adventure, so its play format is a personal narrative experience rather than a multiplayer session. Its premise and blink-based design are therefore central to understanding what kind of game those figures represent.
