Before Your Eyes
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Before Your Eyes is a first-person narrative told through a webcam: the game watches your real eyes, and every time you blink, time leaps forward - so scenes slip past whether you're ready or not. A short, moving 1.5-2 hour tale of a life recounted to a ferryman of souls. (It also plays in a mouse mode if you'd rather not use the camera, though a couple of achievements want the webcam.)
Most achievements are one-off narrative choices scattered through the story, so several are missable on a blind run - and full completion needs about two playthroughs, because Greece and Egypt are mutually exclusive in one run and Redo asks you to make the opposite big decision the second time. Even Keeled (never act in anger) is the fiddliest - it spans several separate moments across the whole game. Eyes of Steel and Where's My Face? really want the webcam mode.
Before Your Eyes
CommonComplete the game.
Finish a full playthrough.
Eyes Of Steel
CommonYou can win any staring contest.
Using the webcam eye-detection, hold your eyes open through a staring-contest / metronome section for around 30 seconds (about 30 ticks) without blinking. Needs the camera, not mouse mode.
Star Gazer
CommonComplete the Constellation.
At the beach in Chapter 6, connect and finish the constellation before you blink to advance the scene.
Philhellenist
CommonChoose Greece.
Chapter 2, when Dad flips through the photo book, choose Greece on the second page. Mutually exclusive with Egypt in one playthrough.
Egyptologist
UncommonChoose Egypt.
Chapter 2, the same photo-book moment - choose Egypt instead. Mutually exclusive with Greece, so it needs a second playthrough.
Punctilious
UncommonTake all the notes in class.
Chapter 4, scene two: after the exchange with Chloe, take every note in the class scene before it advances.
Redo
RareLive both sides of a big decision.
Chapter 6, scene one (in bed): on a later playthrough, choose the opposite option to the one you first picked. Effectively requires two playthroughs.
Where's my face?
RareRecalibrate 10 Times.
Recalibrate the eye-tracking (space bar) 10 times across your play. Needs the webcam mode.
Virtuoso
RareIgnore distractions from piano.
Chapter 5, the golden Bach-book / piano scene: ignore the distractions (don't pick up the phone) through the following bed scene.
Even Keeled
RareNever show your anger.
Across the whole game, never lash out in anger: don't throw the painting as a toddler, don't crumple the Bach book in the car, don't throw anything at the art agent, and don't throw the phone on Chloe's call.
Obnoxious
RareProvoke the Ferryman's ire.
Chapter 1 intro: when the Ferryman asks you to blink, deliberately keep waiting and not complying until he becomes irritated.
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