Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Sep 6, 2015

  Totally worth playing it. Quite disturbing, but athmospheric. Highly recommended for SH fans. As for puzzles - some are unobvious, but the developer provided help in the Community Hub. 8 marshmallow monks /10
• gamedeal user

  Sep 10, 2015

  What an intense experience, it is clear that the designers clearly knew what they were doing. Already bought the DLC just so I could support these talented creators.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 14, 2015

  I am a murderer.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 1, 2017

  Well, I just finished playing. I played it all in one go, blind. I had no idea what to expect, and I had chills practically the entire time. It held me enough and kept me entralled the entire time. I absolutly loved it. Though, yes, it was confusing, it was still great. And the fact that is was made in 36 hours... Astounding. Some parts really reminded me of Silent Hill 2 and 3, especially that final puzzle with choosing the noose. But I felt like the ideas were a wonderful blend. The voice acting was perfect, especially for the announcer (who I totally think is Simon); the music was beautiful, and the atmosphere was just... Mmm, yes~ The only complaint was that the music did seem to change at awkward points, and there was really no lead in or out to it. Some of it felt out of place, but it wasn't a big deal. Got the ending "It's a Suprise, Silly", and I will definitely play again to get the rest. I'm a big fan now, and I'm anticipating more of your work. I'm going to download and play Take the Dream IX very soon. Keep up the good job! :D
• gamedeal user

  May 30, 2017

  This game is amazing. It brings my favourite form of horror into my favourite style of horror game. Anyone interested in a twisted tale that will both turn your stomach and leave you wanting to know more should really play this game. As soon as I finished the free game I paid for the dlcs. Honestly I believe I've found my new favourite indie developer.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 6, 2017

  Honestly, I loved this game. So much so I even went to get the goodie bag. What got me into this game was I saw a playthrough on youtube of Red Haze, and I heard this game was related to it, so I thought I'd check it out. I'm glad I did! I'm someone whose been into the horror genre since I was twelve, despite being a pretty big weenie myself, haha. Close Your Eyes managed to scare me, but it was mostly due to the sounds and atmosphere, it kept making me feel like something was gonna happen, like some kind of freakish monster was going to pop out of nowhere and chase me. The soundtrack in my opinion was great, it had an uneasy air to it, where as the songs in the game were pretty catchy. I'm talking about the ending credits and the pancake scene here. The artwork is also pretty good, and does well for the style of the game. Close Your Eyes has multiple endings as well, all of which are pretty easy to obtain. (Except for maybe like, one or two.) I managed to complete this game with all endings in around 4 hours, so it's pretty short. Probably would've been shorter if I wasn't lost in the teleporter maze, searching for the "Totally Canon Ending". My last pro for this game would be the voiceacting. Gosh, the voiceacting. It was really good, especially for a freeware game. The Host in particular was amazing! Now, as with every game that has pros, theres of course cons as well. Although darkness can add to atmosphere, I felt the game was too dark. It was really dark almost throughout the whole game and it made it really hard to see where I was going most the time. Theres a couple good puzzles in the game, but about two had me sitting there, scratching my head in confusion. I'm glad there were guides for those two segments because I felt I probably would of been stuck otherwise. Now, theres also a segment where you're in a mansion and have to collect a bunch of keys. I personally didn't have trouble with it and found all the keys rather fast, but I can see how it could get a little irritating for some people. I feel it lasted a little too long and may of been made to artifically make the game longer. My last con for this game would be the deaths. The default ending screen isn't bad, but my complaint here would be it doesn't make sense for every scenario. Like if you get shot by a gun and bleed to death, it doesn't exactly make sense that there would be a death screen of you being hung. I think a good way to counter this is to make different ending screens for different ways of dying. (An example of a game doing this is Kio's Adventure, though not the best example, it's one I can name off the top of my head.) I felt this game was pretty dang good, and it's unfortunate it's not well known. I hope it'll increase in popularity over time, and I'll continue to support the developer! I recommend this game to those who enjoy rpg horrors or would like a relatively quick game to play in their sparetime, and if you enjoy the game enough, I also recommend to get the goodie bag dlc to support the developer. A side note: Marshmallow Monk is adorable and I love him.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 18, 2018

  Close Your Eyes is a exploration & puzzle Rpgmaker game where you are a [i] Marshmallow Monk [/i] that just escaped being hanged, and now is fleeing through an old subway system. But things don't seen to be so simple... With a cast of weird, confusing and handsome characters, CYE sets itself as a universe of wretched creatures and a murderer, and how they'll keep on going blindly to the gallow, even with their eyes open... [i] Maybe if they just closed them, just for a little while... [/i] A great atmospheric terror game, with little to no jumpscares. And it's free, can't be better than that.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2019

  Close Your Eyes has some good chills and some interesting scenarios. However, some of the puzzles are a bit too obscure for my taste.