Beyond Eyes

Beyond Eyes is an incredibly original adventure game for PC, PS4 and XONE in which we assume the role of a blind girl who uses her working senses to visualize the surrounding world. The title is the debut project of tiger & squid, a one-person Dutch studio. Despite the unsuccessful fundraises at Indiegogo, the developers managed to catch the interest of Team 17 Software, which has released several interesting productions such as Penarium or Sheltered as a part of their program of supporting independent game designers.

Plot

The protagonist is a ten-year-old girl named Rae who lost sight in an accident while firing up fireworks. Since then, the girl stays away from crowded and lively public places, spending most of her time in the garden next to her house where he feels safe in the company of her cat, Nani. One day, the animal disappears, and the worried and lonely Rae decides to leave the house for the first time in a long time to find her lost pet.

Mechanics

The gameplay consists in traversing a hostile and alien environment in search of traces of the lost cat. Since we control the blind girl, as you might guess, the mechanics quite significantly deviates from the established solutions of adventure games. The heroine has to skillfully use the incoming stimuli – mainly auditory ones – for the purposes of visualization of and orientation in the surrounding world. The gameplay premise harmonizes brilliantly with the production’s original visual layer that is full of outlined shapes, presented with blurry colors reminiscent of a watercolor painting, gradually emerging from an endless white.

Last updated on 22 September 2014