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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.

Released Apr 8, 2021 Developer GoodbyeWorld Games Publisher Skybound Games Platforms Windows · Mac EmotionalNarrativeStory RichIndieFirst-Person
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

97.9%positive17,499 reviews

What reviewers agree on

Praised
Criticised
Bar length = how many of the 102 reviews raise the point On criticised points, the pale part = reviewers who still recommend the game Select a point to see the exact counts and what reviewers wrote.

Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 97.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20

Recommended · 15 found this helpful

“I’ve been hearing about this game from my friend since last year, and I kept asking him if it was actually good. Recently, I finally got to try it myself… which might’ve been his way of saying - just play it already. and YES… it really is a such good game T T. The story is…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“Must play. A game which ends in a blink and stays with you forever.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“With every blink you lose a memory, yet somehow each one stays with you. Cruelest part is? You can never blink back to what's already gone. SHORT,SHARP,INNOVATIVE. Would gladly through it again!”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:18 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

32playing at last check
3924-hour peak
491all-time peak
0 100 200 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 109 avg · Apr 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

11achievements
19.2%median completion
7.1%rarest: Obnoxious
63.2% of players 44.1% of players 42.0% of players 40.8% of players 19.6% of players 19.2% of players 14.5% of players 14.0% of players 12.1% of players 12.1% of players 7.1% of players 63.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
63.2%Before Your Eyes — Complete the game.
44.1%Eyes Of Steel — You can win any staring contest.
42.0%Star Gazer — Complete the Constellation.
Rarest badges of honor
7.1%Obnoxious — Provoke the Ferryman's ire.
12.1%Virtuoso — Ignore distractions from piano.
12.1%Even Keeled — Never show your anger.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$9.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US9.99 USD
EU9.75 EUR
UK8.50 GBP
Australia14.50 AUD
Canada12.99 CAD
Japan1,200 JPY
Brazil32.99 BRL
China42.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$6.2 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$11

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 11, 2025
Goodnight Universe, our follow up to Before Your Eyes, is OUT NOW!

Our new game Goodnight Universe is OUT NOW! If you loved Before Your Eyes, we made this game for you.A psychic baby narrative adventure. Hone your powers. Mend a broken family. Take on an evil tech co

Oct 02, 2025
Goodnight Universe DEMO out now!

To our incredible Before Your Eyes community... Our new game Goodnight Universe has a free demo out NOW! DOWNLOAD THE DEMO HEREːsteamthisːːsteamthisːːsteamthisː We've been working on this follow-up ga

Aug 22, 2025
Our new game Goodnight Universe has a release date! 🌠

Hey everyone,We have some incredible news to share. Our next game, Goodnight Universe, now has an official release date: November 11, 2025! 🎉 In case you don't know about Goodnight Universe, here's a

May 01, 2024
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: our new game is...Goodnight Universe

Hello to our Before Your Eyes players! It's been a minute, but we have some HUGE news: WE'VE JUST ANNOUNCED OUR NEXT GAME: GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE If you loved Before Your Eyes, then this is for you: You a

Oct 18, 2022
Eye Detection Fix (Patch for Windows Version)

Hi folks, Over the past week we heard a number of you reporting that the eye detection was not working on your Windows machines. We dug deep into the issue today and it is now fixed! The "red box" sho

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Indie
Player tagsEmotional · Narrative · Story Rich · Indie · First-Person · Interactive Fiction · Walking Simulator · Singleplayer · Adventure · Cartoony · Colorful · Hand-drawn (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements11
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.beforeyoureyesgame.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: 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