Before Your Eyes — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Goodnight Universe, our follow up to Before Your Eyes, is OUT NOW! | 2025-11-11 | Our new game Goodnight Universe is OUT NOW! If you loved Before Your Eyes, we made this game for you.A psychic baby narrative adventure. Hone your powers. Mend a broken family. Take on an evil tech company. Nothing a baby can't do, right? If you’ve ever felt different...this story is for you.There's so many amazing games out there, but not a lot of narrative ones like this these days. We're forever grateful for you because you're the reason that Before Your Eyes reached so many people. And now, we can't wait for you to experience Goodnight Universe. With love, The BYE Team P.S. if you enjoy the game please leave a review on Steam, it goes a v |
| Goodnight Universe DEMO out now! | 2025-10-02 | To our incredible Before Your Eyes community... Our new game Goodnight Universe has a free demo out NOW! DOWNLOAD THE DEMO HEREːsteamthisːːsteamthisːːsteamthisː We've been working on this follow-up game for over three years, and we're super excited (and nervous) to share this slice of it with you all today. Hearing the reactions you all had to Before Your Eyes is what inspired us to make Goodnight Universe, so we cannot wait to hear what you think. Even though it's a completely new story (about a psychic baby), it shares a lot in common with Before Your Eyes. It's a story about the struggles of being different, finding your home, and living y |
| Our new game Goodnight Universe has a release date! 🌠 | 2025-08-22 | Hey everyone,We have some incredible news to share. Our next game, Goodnight Universe, now has an official release date: November 11, 2025! 🎉 In case you don't know about Goodnight Universe, here's a little bit about it... 🐣Step into the story of Isaac, a 6-month-old baby developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own. We cannot wait for you to experience it...✨ Wishlist Goodnight Universe on Steam (it really helps us a lot with the a l g o r i t h m ) ✨ Join our Discord 😴 For more updates, follow our sibling studio, Nice Dream: ✨ |
| BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: our new game is...Goodnight Universe | 2024-05-01 | Hello to our Before Your Eyes players! It's been a minute, but we have some HUGE news: WE'VE JUST ANNOUNCED OUR NEXT GAME: GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE If you loved Before Your Eyes, then this is for you: You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own. Coming 2025... 🍼Be a baby 🌀Use psychic powers 💽Escape an evil tech company 🫂Mend a disconnected family And we're super honored to announce that we'll be demoing a small slice of the game in competition at Tribeca Festival this summer. Please WISHLIST NOW! h |
| Eye Detection Fix (Patch for Windows Version) | 2022-10-18 | Hi folks, Over the past week we heard a number of you reporting that the eye detection was not working on your Windows machines. We dug deep into the issue today and it is now fixed! The "red box" should now turn green. Thanks for letting us know, and for your patience while we patched. Best, The GoodbyeWorld Games team |
| Mac M1 Patch | 2022-05-19 | Fixed issue for Mac M1 users who experienced crashes on "new game". Fixed issue on Mac Air where game screen would not be visible (auto screen-resolution detection issue). |
| You might have heard that BYE won a BAFTA last Thursday... | 2022-04-09 | Don't ever think you're not enough! Thanks to your support, we can now say Before Your Eyes is a BAFTA-winning game! Developing BYE has been a long, 7 year journey for our team and it has all been worth it - mainly by seeing your reactions to it but also by receiving this very, very fancy award. We are incredibly excited and we hope to make more amazing experiences for you in the future. In the mean time, stay tuned for more BYE announcements soon... Thank you all! |
| Look How Far You've Gotten Us! | 2022-03-10 | Hello Everyone, First, Thank you! Thank you for your support of BYE. Back in November we asked for your support in our pursuit of recognition for our game and the response was overwhelming. All of that hard work paid off. We are so happy to report that BYE has been nominated for a BAFTA! The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has nominated BYE in their Game Beyond Entertainment category and we couldn’t be more happy that the game you all love is being recognized the world over. You can watch the 2022 BAFTA Awards on Thursday, April 4th Watch on these platforms! TWITCH Facebook YouTube |
| Vote for BYE in The Game Awards 2021! | 2021-11-25 | Hello everyone, yesterday we asked you to nominate Before Your Eyes in the Most Innovative Gameplay category of Steam Awards. Now we are asking you for one more thing: vote for BYE in this year's TGA Awards! BYE has been nominated in the Games for Impact category for this year's The Game Awards. There are some great games in this category, but if BYE has made an impact on you, we'd really appreciate your vote! Being recognized by the voting jury has been a great honor, but being recognized by the players is the ultimate reward. You can cast your vote HERE on the TGA nominees page. Thank you and see you on December 9th! |
| Vote for BYE in Steam Awards! | 2021-11-24 | Hello everyone, The Holiday season is upon us, and this means it’s time for the Steam Awards nominations! If you have played Before Your Eyes and think we delivered on our goal of creating an immersive, emotional narrative game (or if you just liked what you played), we’d like to ask you to consider voting for BYE in this year’s Steam Awards in the Most Innovative Gameplay category. Every vote count and we’re grateful for all the support you have shown us so far – thank you! |
| Indiecade 2021 Jury Prix award for Before Your Eyes! | 2021-10-27 | We are very excited to tell you that Before Your Eyes has just received the 2021 Indiecade Jury Prix award for its innovation and design! https://i.ibb.co/SX1JW5H/Indiecade-2021-jury-prix.jpg A big “thank you” to everyone who played BYE and to the jury for seeing something special in our game. Thank you all! |
| Before Your Eyes Deluxe and Mac Are Now Available | 2021-09-29 | Before Your Eyes Deluxe bundle is now available on Steam. Get the game along with a soundtrack in both MP3 and lossless formats, and a 36-page digital art book full of concept art, early 3D art, and stories from the development for $13.49! If you own the game, you can still get the deluxe content with the 25% bundle discount for just $5.99 (the price of the game will be deducted from your total). Also, you can now play Before Your Eyes on a Mac! You don't have to do anything, it just works! Enjoy and make sure to follow us on all social platforms Goodbyeworld Twitter Goodbyeworld Discord Follow Skybound Games Twitter Facebook Instagram Discor |
| Before Your Eyes Summer Sale! | 2021-06-26 | Get 20% off on Before Your Eyes and get ready to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime journey! Don't blink or you'll miss the sale. |
| BYE winner of 4 Unfold Games awards! 20% off through this weekend only | 2021-05-22 | Wow! We are absolutely honored to be a winner of the Unfold Games Awards in 4 categories! ːsteamthumbsupːBest Game ːsteamthumbsupːBest Debut Game ːsteamthumbsupːInnovation ːsteamthumbsupːBest Narrative Thanks to the organizers at Unfold Games, the sponsors, and all our amazing supporters. Don't forget Before Your Eyes is 20% off on Steam! The sale ends May 23rd. |
| Before Your Eyes 20% Off! | 2021-05-15 | Before Your Eyes is 20% off starting today! Now's the chance to embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. We hope to hear about your experience on our steam forums. |
| Before Your Eyes nominated for 6 Unfold Games Awards! | 2021-05-05 | Hello everyone, Happy to announce that Before Your Eyes is nominated for multiple Unfold Games Awards, including best game! In other great news Before Your Eyes is also eligible for the Audience Award category for the Unfold Games Awards. It was an absolute labor of love for us. If you enjoyed your emotional journey, please do us a solid and give the game a vote for the Audience Award category. It helps a lot! Voting ends May 15th https://unfoldgamesawards.com/index.php?p=view&category=0&id=755 |
| PATCH 1.2.6.2 is now LIVE! | 2021-04-24 | Hey everyone, first of all, thank you for being here with us and all your feedback we've gotten so far. We love hearing your opinions on the game and the experience you had with Before Your Eyes, so keep them coming! We try to read all your posts on the forum and help out on the spot while taking notes for the patching work we do. The first patch is now live and here's the list of changes it includes: GRAPHICS – there was an issue with the game’s visuals appearing blurry for some players on lower spec PC's. After the patch, BYE should run with higher FPS and without blurriness on a bigger amount of lower or below-minimum spec machines. That s |
| Achievement Bug Fix | 2021-04-15 | Hey Everyone, thanks for an incredible launch week! We’ve identified a bug regarding the Blinkasaurus Rex and Eyes of Steel achievements. Because of this, we’ve removed Blinkasaurus Rex. The good news is that those of you who achieved Eyes of Steel should now see that as successfully achieved on your profile and those that haven’t will be able to achieve it in the future. - The BYE Dev Team |
| Before Your Eyes Launch Stream | 2021-04-09 | Take a seat and enjoy our amazing weekend stream and catch our Q & A video. |
| Launch Day Notice | 2021-04-08 | The launch day of Before Your Eyes is a big day for our team! After many years of work our game which you play just by blinking is finally here but as more and more players get to try our new style of gameplay for themselves, we discovered an issue that may affect those trying to play with the graphics set to high on lower-end PCs. It seems that playing Before Your Eyes on a lower spec PC with graphics and/or resolution set on HIGH can result in lower framerates or stuttering and this, in turn, may cause blurriness, black screen or poor blink detection. The team is working on this, but in the meantime, we recommend that if you are playing on |