Before Your Eyes similar games & best alternatives

Before Your Eyes

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Unique blink mechanic
  • Deeply emotional and impactful story
  • Immersive narrative experience
  • Short and accessible playtime
  • Beautiful art and music

Things to keep in mind

  • Blink detection can be glitchy
  • Limited replayability
  • Some players find blink mechanic frustrating
  • Short length may not satisfy all players
  • Minimal gameplay complexity

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Blackwood Crossing

  • Leila

  • Last Day of June

  • Fractured Minds

  • 1000xRESIST

  • Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies

More continuation-driven

Games that feels like Before Your Eyes but with an even stronger pull to keep playing

  • Until Then

  • Sally Face - Episode One

  • UNBEATABLE

  • Memory Oblivion Box

  • A Space for the Unbound

  • A Space For The Unbound - Prologue

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Before Your Eyes: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Health, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Continuation.

Last update: 04/08/2026