Close Your Eyes

I loved the other developer's games, although the repetitiveness of tasks can be tedious. However this anniversary update is terrible. I bought this in April 2019 & it says expect updates in Feb 2019. It also says "Close your eyes" in this version is unfinished and all but the incredibly repetitive and difficult Girl Graveyard game are available, the rest of the content says "coming soon". So not sure how this can be recommended or get good reviews from what I've experienced.

Let me start off by saying I've been a huge fan of Close Your Eyes ever since it came out. I'm fond of all the characters and god, I was so delighted to see a remake! I've waited and waited and purchased it as soon as it came out! I can say that it was definitely worth the wait. This game has such likeable characters, kickass music, challenging gameplay, and fun puzzles. I will admit, it made me jump several times, especially when I was truly in gameplay mode(lights off, headphones on). Not only that but there were so many times that it made me uneasy. The sound effects really add to it. I recommend this game to anyone who loves a good horror rpg.

"Cult hit" is an extreme exaggeration. This game leaves a sour taste in my mouth, because it's so repetitive and redundant, Whatever meaning was meant to be here is only what we believe, but we're made to believe there is "an answer" when this is all just a giant social experiment for the sake of getting money. It was popular at first, when there were fewer games for free, and then, I thought I understood it. No, all of the meaning you see here is a farse. The whole game you're told "closer your eyes" but it's like, what will that do, suddenly change the graphics quality and make the game more interesting? No, no more BS fetch quests with boring puzzles with a plot with so little substance, that alone makes it scary. It seems like it was made by a kid playing with paint/gimp and rpg maker. On the positive side, the artwork by Rincs, the artist for the pretty pictures, looks amazing. And some of the sound cloud stuff was pretty good.

The game is advertised as a remake of "Close Your Eyes" but it is in reality a collection of multiple games. [b]The Close Your Eyes game itself within this collection is still unfinished after almost 7 years of early access and cannot be completed. [/b] I don't recommend buying this, play the original instead.

If you're on mac, its definitely not something to look into. Updates are rare and mac users are unable to play past a glitch following the first puzzle at the start of the game (an issue that was acknowledged, but never resolved). The quick discussion reply was appreciated wholeheartedly, but it was never acted on, and i'm unable to get a refund because of it. The actual game looks great, i'm sure it has an amazing plot and adventure to it, just sad I probably wont be playing it for a long, long while.

Really great so far. Overall, the sprite work, artstyle, soundeffects and - track are very good at worst. Girl's Graveyard is very intruiging and can be extremely eerie. I've had a complaint about a room getting too dark which was apparently fixed according to update news. Twisted Puzzle is fun though I found some hints to be too vague but I also think changing that would severely hurt the game and its presentation. So far the Remake of the "main" game is also very good. I can't really say more at the moment considering it's not finished. Overall I don't have any major issues with any of the modes. So I wholeheartedly recommend the purchase even if it's just for GG and TP. From what I know the dev(s) listen to feedback and I hope they keep up the quality of what we have so far. If they do this is going to be a fantastic game. Edit mid 2020: to all newcomers who wonder whether I still recommend this even though updates usually get delayed by at least 4 months and appear very rarely in general: yes, I do. The two finished modes definitely warrant the price tag for me considering that I have played both twice with intention of doing so again and I remain optimistic about the main component. I wish this would be updated on a more frequent basis and seeing the amount of content that is already available and the content that is supposed to come out I doubt this will be complete any time soon. I'm not mad that I bought it because the price tag is less than a Happy Meal and I most definitely got something very good and high quality out of it. I'm dissappointed because I was looking forward to the other modes or the remake but it seems that I can abandon my hopes. Edit early 2021: pretty sure this is abandoned. I still stand by my statement that I think you get good value for the price with the finished modes but don't expect this to be finished ever. Edit late 2021: Update announced and dev posted in discussion forum. I am very happy.

I really wish the developer had focused on finishing the unfinished game some people paid for rather than just pumping out more games. This remake looks promising. I replayed it a few times. But what it has so far is so limited. The only finished aspect of it is Girls Graveyard, which is not the main selling point, and that honestly peeves me off really bad. To pay almost 10 dollars expecting a decent remake of a good game, I'm very dissapointed to have received a tiny chunk of a remake and an entirely different side game. It's not bad by any means. It's just not worth almost 10 dollars, especially unfinished like this with no update coming in the near future despite the developer clearly being active.

Прошёл до единственного (?) возможного конца версию 0.10 и скажу одно - Aesthetic Gamer полностью справился со своей задачей. В старый Close Your Eyes я не играл, поэтому мой отзыв не будет отталкиваться от оригинала. Итак, да, это 2D инди-хоррор. Но пусть вас не пугает это словосочетание, поскольку в играх Yai Gameworks присутствует какое-то особое видение. Здесь нет избитого сюжета, нет пошлых скримеров, вылезающих невпопад, нет, наконец, единственно верного описания происходящего. Как и в Silent Hill, в Close your Eyes (да и других играх автора) упор делается на субъективизацию происходящего. Думаю, если спросить двух разных людей, о чём игра, то их ответ будет диаметрально противоположным. И это замечательно. Впрочем, основная сюжетная канва всё же присутствует. Судя по всему, мы играем за убийцу (возможно, девушка?) и нам следует ответить за своих грехи. В геймплее ничего особо выдающегося нет - ходим по комнатам, пытаемся разобраться, что тут происходит, решаем несложные пазлы. Звук и музыка - на высоте, а простенькая (но аккуратная) графика задаёт нужный тон безумному повествованию, идти по рельсам которого хочется не останавливаясь до конца. К сожалению, игра обрывается на самом интересном месте, но обновление, если верить надписи в конце, выйдет уже к концу этого - началу следующего года. P.S. Видимо, игры Aesthetic Gamer станут для меня главным хоррор-откровением 2018 года. Настолько оригинальные и странные (в хорошем смысле слова) приключения сегодня мало кто делает.

i want every piece of dialogue in this game tattooed on my body

Eff you and that "Get to Round 4 without dying" achievement buddy (the game itself is good. If you want a good horror-rpg that doesn't really on jumpscares to really get under the skin, it's worth a shot at least).