8 Recent Video Games That Utterly Messed With Your Mind
1. Before Your Eyes
Before Your Eyes is one of those titles that makes you sit back and smile with utter satisfaction upon completion, as it's not just a game that presents a touching narrative throughline, but does so in a new and refreshing way.
The core concept behind the title is that it uses a webcam to track your real-life blinks, which you use to advance the story, the gimmick being that every time you blink you actually skip forward in time as you live out your entire life as your soul is taken to the great beyond by The Ferryman.
What this result in, is an emotional journey that is completely controlled by a normally involuntary response, and when you're told that if you spy a metronome at the bottom of the screen that this means the next time you blink you'll leave the scene, you'll begin to fight that urge to blink in order to stay in this moment a little longer.
As things progress, this time skip ability is used as both a power and a punishment, as sometimes the game will hold you in horrible moments of your life, reliving them in agonizing detail that you won't be able to look away from. All of this culminates in an experience that will leave your mind reeling for hours afterward.