Games like Before Your Eyes
If Before Your Eyes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Control, I'm Not Coming Back, Anamorphine and MARK'S LIFE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its camera eye tracking immersion, emotional and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
Players who liked Before Your Eyes also play
Steam players who put hours into Before Your Eyes also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Top pick for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
MARK'S LIFE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
This is the story of Mark's life...
Sublustrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Step into the space between subconscious and reality. Explore strange liminal worlds, solve sound-driven puzzles, and unravel the secrets behind the enigmatic device left by a vanished scientist.
The Last Night Train
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A story-driven puzzle adventure about Ovid searching for Thera, his love who vanished aboard a train where the night never ends—but what if she was never the one he needed to find?
Searching Light
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Something is wrong with the world — or with the boy walking through it. A surreal pixel adventure across two parallel realities, about fear, memory, and a mind that sees everything differently.
Refrain: Verse of Fate
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.
Mayfly
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Before Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Before Your Eyes
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To the Moon
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Night in the Woods
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
OMORI
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Before Your Eyes.
Reviewers of Before Your Eyes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Before Your Eyes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Before Your Eyes
- Does Before Your Eyes run on Steam Deck?
- Before Your Eyes is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Before Your Eyes cost?
- Before Your Eyes is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Before Your Eyes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Before Your Eyes are Control, I'm Not Coming Back, Anamorphine, MARK'S LIFE.
- Who developed Before Your Eyes?
- Before Your Eyes was developed by GoodbyeWorld Games and published by Skybound Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Before Your Eyes.
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