10 Breathtaking Video Game Moments We'll NEVER Forget
4. The Ending - Before Your Eyes
This entry contains major spoilers for Before Your Eyes. You also might need some tissues because it is a doozy.
Before Your Eyes is a narrative adventure game that has you using your eyes (shocking) as the controller, playing as the recently deceased Benjamin Brynn as he talks with a mysterious Ferryman. The two explore Brynn's memories, searching for a story to convince an elusive Gatekeeper to allow him into paradise.
You learn that Benjamin supposedly lived a compelling life, growing up to become a celebrated artist. However, it is revealed towards the game's climax that this whole thing was a lie. Tragically, Benny never became an adult, as he died of a terminal illness before he could.
The final scene breaks your heart as the Ferryman tells the Gatekeeper the story of this child taken from the world too soon, and Benny's mother reads him a letter that celebrates the short life he lived.
Before Your Eyes' POV gameplay makes you really feel like you are Benny. As such, learning how loved he was in his brief life hits harder than a punch to the heart.