Before Your Eyes

"Before Your Eyes" is a groundbreaking first-person narrative adventure that takes players on a soul's journey into the afterlife, using their real-life blinks to control the story. After death, players find themselves aboard the Ferryman's ship, tasked with reliving their most significant moments to pass on. Through innovative webcam technology, players blink through memories of love, family, and career, shaping the narrative with their gaze. As the Ferryman delves deeper, players confront repressed memories and a heartbreaking truth. Narrative themes in this game include grief, guilt, living up to your potential, and death.

• Release date: 04-08-2021
• Developer: GoodbyeWorld Games
• Publisher: Skybound Games
• Platforms: Android, iOS, MacOS, Netflix, PSVR 2, Windows PC

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Birds

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  Multiple birds hang out on the Ferryman's boat.

  • Can't be avoided

• Cats

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  When you're young, you receive a one-eyed cat named Ernie... who you later discover is a girl and she has kittens. AFTER PLOT TWIST: You will see dead cats.

  • Can't be avoided

• Fictional Creatures

  The Ferryman is modeled after the Egyptian god Anubis

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• Predators

  Coyotes

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Death & Loss

• Death of Child

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  END GAME SPOILERS: The story Ben initially tells The Ferryman is a lie, and he in fact dies as a child instead of getting over his illness.

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• Death of Loved One

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you learn that a random image of a ringing phone was your mom learning her own father had died shortly before he was coming to visit.

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• Death of Parent

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  In the first run of your life, you learn that Chloe's mother died recently. Your mother dies due to illness later on. AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you learn that a random image of a ringing phone was your mom learning her own father had died shortly before he was coming to visit.

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• Death of pet

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you see coyotes eating Ernie's kittens

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• Single Parenting

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  Chloe's mother died before she moved to your neighborhood, meaning her father is a single parent. Your mother dies when you're an adult, leaving your father a single parent.

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Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Wet Sounds

  During scenes where you are on a boat or near the water, you can hear waves

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Drugs & Alcohol

• Alcohol Consumption

  Wine

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  In one scene, you'll toast your mother with wine.

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• Prescribed Medication

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you are very ill at home and giving an IV of pain medication as well as a medication organizer with daily pills to take.

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Financial & Resource Management

• Poverty

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  Your mother has to take an accounting job when she's not financially successful at composing.

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Hate & Discrimination

• Ableism

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: Chloe tells you that she "knows you're faking" and that "all this stuff doesn't impress me," referring to the medical devices and accessibility aids in your room. You overhear a conversation between your parents about how mom fears you're never going to get better and it feels like there's "no point" to anything. You engage in internalized ableism as well, writing on your typewriter that you are a "loser" who never amounted to anything — just "gave up" and let the disease take you.

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Mental Health

• Grief

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• Misc. Mental Health

  Guilt

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Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Misc. Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

  Possible gruff, stern, and confrontational language

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: When The Ferryman tells you he knows you're lying, it can come off as gruff, stern, and confrontational. Likewise during scenes if you fail to follow instructions when he has asked you not to blink and he makes you try again.

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Phobias

• Agliophobia

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you are very ill at home and giving an IV of pain medication as well as a medication organizer with daily pills to take.

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• Misc. Phobias

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  Aquaphobia (Fear of water), Atelophobia (Fear of imperfection), Atychiphobia (Fear of failure), Deipnophobia (Fear of dining with others), Felinophobia (Fear of cats), Koumpounophobia (Fear of buttons), Ornithophobia (Fear of birds), Pathophobia (Fear of disease), Pharmacophobia (fear of medications), Radiophobia (fear of X-rays), Siderophobia (fear of stars), Soteriophobia (fear of dependence on others), Thanatophobia (Fear of dying), Zeusophobia (Fear of God or gods)

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• Nyctophobia

  Multiple points of the game take place at night or in dark spaces

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• Ommetaphobia

  Various eye imagery throughout the game, including showing you where to look, when to blink, and when to close your eyes. If you prefer to play using clicks instead of blinking, you can toggle this in the settings menu. No eye trauma occurs throughout the game.

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• Thalassophobia

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  At the beginning of the game, you have to blink to get to the ocean, where you meet the Ferryman. Bodies of water are featured throughout the game, including the ocean and baths, but without traversing any depths.

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• Traumatophobia

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Physical Health & Body Issues

• Acquired Disability

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  END GAME SPOILERS: The story Ben initially tells The Ferryman is a lie, and he in fact dies as a child instead of getting over his illness.

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• Misc. Physical Health & Body Issues

  Your mom is allergic to cats. In one scene, you enter an MRI machine.

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• Pain & Physical Suffering

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  AFTER PLOT TWIST: After the Ferryman makes you go through specific life events again, you are very ill at home and giving an IV of pain medication as well as a medication organizer with daily pills to take. END GAME SPOILERS: The story Ben initially tells The Ferryman is a lie, and he in fact dies as a child instead of getting over his illness.

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• Terminal Illness

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  In the first version of the story, your mother dies from an illness. END GAME SPOILERS: The story Ben initially tells The Ferryman is a lie, and he in fact dies as a child instead of getting over his illness.

  • Can't be avoided

Religion & Sects

• Religion

  The Ferryman is modeled after the Egyptian god Anubis

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