6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Before Your Eyes. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Before Your Eyes.
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time. She is tasked with documenting life in a local valley before a mysterious cataclysm washes...
Release Date: 04/08/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories. Play involves exploring each scene, locating objects and listening to the story as you move the camera to look within what you've found...
Release Date: 12/01/2016, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
That Dragon, Cancer is a game about a family with a young son who has terminal brain cancer. It sounds off-putting and morbid but this living biography invites you to join the family and find hope, faith and love in the face of an insurmountable...
Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse. From a first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
Release Date: 03/12/2015
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering adventure. You are an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes of oxygen. You explore the world and discover fantastic gardens on the planet.
25 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Before Your Eyes. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Before Your Eyes.
Release Date: 11/12/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an adventure game where you play as a young girl who starts a wildlife conservation club. Play involves exploring the island, using the bird song you hear to find and photograph all manner of real-world birds. It stands out...
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Florence is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t...
Release Date: 20/09/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Gardens Between is a puzzle game set in dreamlike island gardens where you play as best friends Arina and Frendt. You work around the island levels collecting balls of light in your lantern, manipulating time to solve puzzles and remove obstacles...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.
Release Date: 19/01/2016
Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover...
Release Date: 13/08/2018
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tree is a narrative game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree. You control the planting, watering and how the tree grows each season. It stands out for how it illustrates the passing of time and the way we interact and form connections...
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Penrose is a text adventure, where you don't only read the story and choose its next step, but can go back into the text to change it in all sorts of mind-bending ways. As the developer describes it, "Penrose is a non-linear narrative adventure game...
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Road to Guangdong is a road trip adventure game about family and travel. You drive across 1990s Guangdong, fix your car and explore the places you pass. You play as Sunny, just after a family tragedy, travelling with Guu Ma, her aunt. They have the task...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Cost of Recovery is a narrative adventure where you play as four different people, one of whom has a stroke. How this impacts each of them is experienced first-hand. Can they all get through this together or will everything start to fall apart?
Release Date: 12/06/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Hand-Made and Open World
Beasts of Maravilla Island is an adventure game where you play an aspiring wildlife photographer. You play Marina who explores the hidden, magic jungles of Maravilla Island. Follow the sights and sounds of the place, you solve puzzles to discover...
Release Date: 01/09/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fête de Famille (Family Gathering) is a text adventure about families. About what happens when families get together. It's an acid portrait of a contemporary French family that asks why, how and what are the bonds that tie them together.
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Genesis Noir is a narrative-driven puzzle game. It's a time travelling mystery to save your lover, by intervening through the history of the world to ultimately stop the expansion of the universe. Although it sounds bizarre, existential and confusing,...
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
South of the Circle is a narrative adventure game about, Peter, a Cambridge academic who finds himself fighting for survival in Antarctica during the 1960’s Cold War. You must cross desolate terrain to reach British, Norwegian and Soviet Antarctic...
Release Date: 15/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Wreck is a narrative game where you play Junon, a mother at a crossroads. She's 36 but her career has stalled, she's emotionally numb, and her personal life is falling apart. It's not unfamiliar territory for a video game these days, but The Wreck...
Release Date: 27/09/2022
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Desta: The Memories Between is a narrative puzzle game about returning home after leaving under difficult circumstances. You guide Desta through metaphorical puzzles that let you revisit painful moments of life and find the words you didn't have at the...
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Frog's Princess is a narrative game about a kingdom surrounded by evil. You play a young princess who must save her kingdom. Along the way, you encounter a frog prince on a quest to rescue his bodyguard and find your plans overturned.
Release Date: 30/08/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
One Night Hot Springs is a narrative game where you play Haru, a 19-year-old transgender woman in Japan. She's invited by an old friend on an overnight trip to a hot springs resort. You make dialogue and interactive choices as you discover that Haru is...
Release Date: 17/03/2021
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Adios is a narrative game about a farmer with a deal-gone-bad with a crime family. Although the setting and scenario are macabre and could be pulled from shows like Ozark and Breaking Bad, the understated atmosphere and sombre tone powerfully...
Release Date: 22/10/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Dot's Home is a narrative game where you play a black woman in Detroit exploring the impact of racism in the past and the results of it today. You travel through time and interact with the characters you meet, learning about redlining, gentrification...
Release Date: 21/09/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Rivals is a puzzle game where you piece together the story of Josh and Luke and the breakup of their band. Playing detective, similar to Return of the Obra Dinn, but rather than murder it's musical betrayal you are sleuthing here. You inspect sources,...
Release Date: 22/09/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Beacon Pines is a storybook adventure game where you play as a small fawn named Luka trying to solve a mystery in a creepy town full of intrigue. You play by collecting words that change the story, so you can go back through the book to play out...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
How to Say Goodbye is a narrative puzzle game where you interact with the illustrations to help a group of ghosts reach the other side. As you progress you discover the story of a character recently turned into a ghost and lost in an unknown world. Your...
Release Date: 10/02/2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Inua - A Story in Ice and Time is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you switch between 3 different time periods, alter people's memories and thoughts, and change both the past and the future. In the far Canadian north, you meet three groups of...
Release Date: 22/09/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Figment is a narrative adventure game set inside a traumatised mind. You explore a whimsical, musical world, complete puzzles, and defeat monsters to uncover a story of optimism and overcoming fear. The unusual, hand-painted art style, a musical score...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Closer the Distance is a narrative slice-of-life game that tests the connections between family and friends when a loved one dies. Unusually, you play the departed rather than the bereaved, as you explore the world and help those you left behind cope...
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