History EyeScream / VideoGames

* NES game ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'' has earned the FanNickname ''Eyeballs: The Game'' because of the sheer number of bosses that play this trope straight. Notable examples include the Eyeball Growths, giant masses of eyeballs growing out of the ground that you have to shoot until they pop, and Grimgrin, a giant monster covered in eyes, which [[ShowsDamage explode as you damage him]].

* In the opening of ''VideoGame/TormentedSouls'', Caroline Walker heads into the spooky Wildberger Hospital to investigate a disappearance. She loses consciousness, wakes up later naked in a bathtub, and finds to her horror that her right eye has been surgically removed. You even get a close-up of the empty socket, for {{Squick}} and FanDisservice.

** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' one of the Joker's close combat moves is to poke his opponents in the eyes.

* The game over screens of ''VideoGame/OneNightAtFlumptys'' feature this. In the first game, your eyes are being cooked in a frying pan while the sequel has your eyes being diced. Veers into CrossesTheLineTwice territory rather than NightmareFuel, as they are both done so in a manner of preparing eggs.
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/OverlordII'', shortly after the frozen [[CreepyChild Overlad]] arrives in the Netherworld, [[ButtMonkey Quaver]] gets his eye stuck to the ice. And when Gnarl orders that the ice be thawed by fire, Quaver pulls away fast enough to leave the eyeball behind. ''Ouch.''

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Pikmin 3]]'', you can have Pikmin attack Bulborb eyes to render them incapable of attacking, and attacking the eyes of a Bugeyed Crawmad will make them stop eating any Pikmin currently in their mouth, in addition to making them vulnerable.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Inscrpytion}}'': Unlocking and using the "special knife" allows you to add a large amount of weight to the scale during battles...by carving out your own eye and putting it on said scale. Thankfully, your "[[AloneWithThePsycho host]]" always offers you a new one after the battle. [[spoiler:It's necessary to unlock more of the story, by replacing your eye with a wizard's to gain TrueSight.]]

** Mentioned offhand in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' when your character is training to become a Blacksmith: Brithael mentions having accidentally thrown a freshly-forged hammerhead into the eye of one of his previous apprentices, though he adds that he got his sight back eventually.

** This happened in Clark Still's past. His partner and best friend Ralf was practising with some knives, he carelessly threw one around... '''ouch'''. That's why he has a [[ScarsAreForever scar on the left side of his face]].

* The player has [[GoForTheEye to do this to defeat the Bacoon]] when she initiates her final phase.

** In the {{DLC}} ''Overlord'', when you finally get to the cause of all the trouble, [[spoiler:David Archer]], you find him suspended in some kind of harness with probes sticking out of, among other things, his eyes and holding them open. Think [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/David_Archer this picture]], only with more focus, lingering, and different angles in the course of the ending cinematic.

* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' has [[spoiler:Sean]] taking a shard of glass through the eye when Daniels loses control of his powers at the end of Episode 3. Episode 4 reveals that the eye had to be removed entirely, and [[spoiler:Sean]] sports an eye patch for the rest of the game. [[spoiler:And since he's the playable character, the occasional sections which take place from a first-person [=POV=] have the left side of the screen blacked out from then on.]] Surprisingly for a series which usually lets you avert disasters like character deaths and serious accidents if you make the right choices, there is ''no way'' to prevent this from happening.

* the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' sequel ''Banjo-Tooie'' includes this. They've put a little spin on it by doing it with eyeball plants. They play a game of keep away with a jiggy, and to get the jiggy you have to... [[{{Squick}} pop them open with bee stingers]]. Okay. [[BloodlessCarnage It isn't too violent, given that this is rated E for everyone.]]

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'''s intro, you see a close up of a crow picking out the eye of a decaying body. While not looking too realistic by today's CGI standards, that was a pretty unpleasant scene at the time of release.

** ''VideoGame/{{Doom 2016}}'' and ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' made execution moves a mechanic to get health back during the Doom Slayer's rampages. Most of the Cacodemon executions involve the Slayer stabbing, punching, or ripping that eye from its socket in a squall of gore.

** One of the items you can find in [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the first game]] is a mask with large spikes in the eyes. It's revealed that girls are blinded with this device for a horrific [[SealedEvilInACan ritual to close hellgates]]. What's worse is you can try to use the mask yourself, though many never have the courage to find what happen if you press the "Use" button.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' has four cases, in three different continuities:

* Norman Jayden of ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' will start [[TearsofBlood bleeding from the eyes]] if he uses the ARI for too long at a particular point in the game. If the player persists in using the ARI, [[spoiler:he'll eventually start [[DeadlyNosebleed bleeding from the nose as well]], which is a sign that his time is almost up]].
* One of the Warrior Dream-bosses from ''Videogame/HollowKnight'' is a woman aptly named "No Eyes". After she was infected by [[spoiler:the Radiance's light]], she couldn't sleep due to fear of the light taking over her mind through her dreams. She and many other bugs tore their eyes out to protect themselves, before dying of the infection. Her in-game sprite shows her with a black substance dripping from her empty eyesockets like tears.

* ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''; the calling card of the mysterious SerialKiller Yagami nicknames "The Mole" is that all of his victims had their eyes carved out, presumably with an ice pick. [[spoiler: This is because The Mole is covering up that the victims were test subjects for a highly toxic Alzheimer's cure, one of the side effects being that their eyes were tinted a vivid shade of blue.]]

* A few weapons in ''Videogame/{{Manhunt}}'' involve gouging out eyes. The Gruesome execution with the glass shard (stabbing the right eye, then slashing their throat), and the Violent execution with the pliers (where the player removes both eyes before knocking the victim out, complete with throwing the eyeballs away) are but two examples.

* In the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series, shaking trees sometimes results in a beehive falling out, leading to the pissed-off [[BeeAfraid bees]] chasing you. If they catch you, they'll sting your eye, leaving it puffy and swollen. Fortunately it's not permanent. Taking a rest (read: saving and quitting) or using some medicine will fix it.

* In the opening scene of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', the [[PlayerCharacter Junior Deputy]] watches a video in which Joseph Seed gouges out the eyes of a man he caught spying on one of his {{cult}}'s church services.

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[[caption-width-right:291:Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in your eye.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Waxworks}}'': Many of the [[{{Gorn}} standard]] deaths involve this. Examples include a spike pit's spike goring you right in the eye, or a plant mutant's seeds pushing your eye out of its socket as they grow inside you.

** Seth himself loses his left eye while escaping Mystia, courtesy of Var Nell. His eye is replaced by the [[EletronicEyes electronic Falcon Eye]].

* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'' has this happen to [[{{Yakuza}} Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu]] during the punishment of [[spoiler:Peko Pekoyama, his personal hitman and bodyguard. Monokuma [[PeoplePuppets puppeteers]] her to start chopping down a bunch of robotic samurai left and right. He charges towards her to try and save her]], but this just results in him getting his eye slashed. He wears an EyepatchOfPower for the rest of the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has quite a bit of this with {{Faceless Eye}}s. All of them explode into LudicrousGibs when beaten, the Eye of Cthulhu sheds its pupil in favor of a toothy maw when it TurnsRed, and [[DualBoss the Twins]], Retinazer and Spazmatism, shed theirs in favor of a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser cannon]] and a {{Hellfire}}-[[BreathWeapon breathing]] mouth, respectively. At least the last two are partially robotic to lessen the horror.

* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings II'', characters in the Byzantine culture group can blind prisoners. This inflicts them with a malus to stats and gives their character portraits black, gaping holes in their sockets.