Before Your Eyes
Worth it · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.87.
- Length
- 1.7h
- Value
- $5.88/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 520 or AMD Radeon Vega Integrated Graphics, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2024. It has been discounted 43 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.87. The record reaches that level 39 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sally Face - Episode One ($2.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats KARMA: The Dark World ($24.99, scores 62).
Steam's global achievement data puts 63 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 722 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 12,211 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to 63% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
so i found this game on sale, right after my gf broke up with me yesterday, and it got me so f up real bad, i swear this game is something. it hits u so hard, i cried the entire game cus obviously the break up and the game is so heartwarming but broken at the same time. i don't expect anyone to read this, but i love you all. i will sign off now, and probably disappear not that im harming myself just completely alone...
When this game first came out I remember watching it on RTgame's channel. It struck a chord with me at the time that no other game has. Then I remember about a year later it came to Netflix games and it was the first opportunity I had to personally play it. It once again spoke to my soul and fundamentally changed me. Fast forward 4 years and here we are. After finally moving out of my parents house and trying to...
Beautiful, short and emocional experience. A must-play if you love story-driven games. Definitely worth playing.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Before Your Eyes scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1082430/before-your-eyesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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