Before Your Eyes developer Nice Dream and publisher Skybound Entertainment have announced the studio’s new game, Goodnight Universe. It’s billed as a spiritual follow-up to Before Your Eyes.
In this game, you play as a six-month-old baby named Isaac who has psychic powers. While Isaac is just a cute little baby and wants familial love, there’s a secret tech company out there that wants to exploit his powers. Goodnight Universe will also expand on the eye-tracking mechanics that Before Your Eyes had, but with a sci-fi twist as well.
“Both Skybound and Nice Dream are dedicated to bringing compelling stories to everyone and feel that interactive entertainment is a medium capable of conveying powerful stories that can’t be told any other way,” said Skybound general managing partner Ian Howe in a press release. “Before Your Eyes is a prime example of this, and Goodnight Universe is shaping up to be yet another boundary-breaking video game.”
While Goodnight Universe doesn’t have any announced platform or release window yet, it will be present at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
Before Your Eyes was released in April 2021 to critical acclaim. In GameSpot’s Before Your Eyes review, we said, “Unusual control schemes often make me long for the familiarity of a controller. Sure, I can speak to my Nintendogs using the microphone on the DS, but sometimes I don’t want to yell at my shih tzu on a Delta flight. Before Your Eyes manages to do the opposite. Its unique mechanic matches its narrative so perfectly, that you won’t want to play it any other way.”
