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Whereas scores of other titles look towards filling potential holes with content, Before Your Eyes has a more special goal in mind: making you appreciate each and every second.Reviewers Note: While Ill try to be as vague as possible, Ill put a LIGHT SPOILER warning up here to [...]

PSVR 2s eye-tracking and emotive art direction combine in a worthwhile way.

Developer: GoodbyeWorld Games Platform: PC The games industry today is generally centered more on iteration than true innovation. It’s not often a game comes along with an idea that radically challenges the conception of what a video game can be. “Before Your Eyes” challenged my conception of what a video game can be. A large part of that is because it’s a game played unlike any I’ve played before. This game is played almost exclusively by just blinking. Like, real-life eye blinking. ...

You probably don’t think much about what your eyes are actually doing while you’re playing a video game. Before Your Eyes forces you to do so, however, as it’s played with a standard mouse, your webcam, and your real-world, physical eyes. In this game, you never quite know what’s going to happen anytime you blink. You play as Benjamin Brynn, who’s being taken to the afterlife by a weary humanoid cat who fishes souls out of the water in some kind of waiting area after death and brin...