History EyeScream / VideoGames

* One of Minsc's shouts in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' is him telling Boo to go for the eyes. This becomes an implemented mechanic in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''.

* The player has [[GoForTheEye to do this to defeat the Bacoon]] when she initiates her final phase in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Diablo|1997}}'''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.

* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' 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.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', inflicting one of these [[spoiler:on EnfantTerrible Illyasviel]] fully cements [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]]'s status as the BigBad of the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' scenario. Particularly vicious, as he slashes her across the face with a ''sword'', but only so she'll be blinded while he continues to torment her.

* One of the dead girls in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' had her eyes cut to get tears of blood in order to mimic something from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.

* ''VisualNovel/PartTimeJob'' features a very surprising and bloody one (well, surprising considering it's based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'') when Pastel slashes [[spoiler:Fluttershy's]] eyes while being held down.

* [[spoiler:Suoh]] stabs [[spoiler:Lucia's father]] right in the eye in ''VisualNovel/{{Sickness}}'', driving the knife into the back of his skull through the socket.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', the game's iconic GrossUpCloseUp of a rotting corpse involves its yellowed, shriveled eye dropping out of the socket.

* Depending on the player's choices in ''[[VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Sunrider Mask of Arcadius]]'', [[spoiler:Ava Crescentia]] can lose her right eye (along with her [[AnArmAndALeg right arm]]) when [[ExplosiveInstrumentation a console blows up in her face]]. [[spoiler:The sequel reveals that she survived, and was given a state-of-the-art [[ElectronicEyes bionic eye]] to replace the one she lost]].

* ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' features a character named Kau, [[BodyHorror whose eyeballs and voicebox were surgically removed]] by Arbitro as part of his fetishistic modifications.

* In the original ''VideoGame/DiabloI'''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.

** Solidus loses his eye after the Harrier fight in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', Naked Snake ([[LateArrivalSpoiler AKA Big Boss]], who is well known for only having one eye in the present day) has been captured, and Volgin tells the Boss to cut out his eyes. [[spoiler:She doesn't. He loses his eye when Ocelot, doing his Russian-roulette-juggling thing, is about to shoot EVA. Snake tackles him, and the gun goes off right by his eye, damaging it irreparably.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'', one of the earlier enemies (yes, early in the game), a crow, have their attack read as a peck to the eyes.

* In the [[VideoGame/Fallout1 first]] [[VideoGame/Fallout2 two]] ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games, aiming for the eyes is not only possible but one of the most effective ways to dispatch enemies -- not only does a critical hit to the eyes typically inflict extra damage, it also bypasses the damage resistance of any armor the target might be wearing and has a chance of automatically killing them outright. In the later ones you can, at most, target the head, but the fact that it just about ''kills'' Perception when a target's head is crippled tends to imply that some of this is still going on. Can't shoot someone in the face with a laser/shotgun and not have a bit of that get in their eyes, after all.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' a Psychopath meets his end when a statue tips over onto him. The statue is holding a real sword. Guess where that sword goes.

* Penguin in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has been shown with [[http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Images/8229620110829_110004_1_big.jpg the bottom of a glass bottle over his eye]] in place of a monocle, which according to previews was stabbed there and cannot be removed without killing him. Being the "sophisticated" man he is, though, he's grown rather [[JustForPun attached]] to it.

* In ''VideoGame/SpookysHouseOfJumpScares'', [[spoiler:dying to the puppeteer]] around room 310 shows a cutscene of [[spoiler:one of your eyes being held open with a knitting needle being lowered into it]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', the Consuls had the ability to directly hack the [[ElectronicEyes Iris]] of each soldier in the Kevesi and Agnian colonies, to make them perceive the Ouroboros as monsters and motivate them to hunt the party down. Consul O attempted to do this to [[{{Samurai}} Cammuravi]] to motivate him to fight in earnest against the Ouroboros. Cammuravi responded to this by ''gouging out his Iris'', determined to retain control of his own faculties. [[spoiler:His next incarnation retains the eye containing his Iris, but [[ResurrectionSickness has evidently suffered at least partial sight loss in it]] as a result of this prior trauma.]]

* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', one of the earlier enemies (yes, early in the game), a crow, have their attack read as a peck to the eyes.

* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': [[spoiler: While trying to stop Basil from killing himself, Sunny gets stabbed in his right eye and blacks out from the pain. In the few seconds before the scene fades to black, [[InterfaceScrew the right side of the screen is blackened to represent the loss of his right eye]]. His last scene in the hospital has bandages over the damaged part of his face.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': [[spoiler: While trying to stop Basil from killing himself, Sunny gets stabbed in his right eye and blacks out from the pain. His last scene in the hospital has bandages over the damaged part of his face.]]

** Eunie eventually starts experiencing flashbacks of [[spoiler:her previous incarnation's death--along with that of her previous colony--at the hands of Moebius D, and it is heavily implied that D kills her by stabbing his sharp finger right through her eye ([[GoryDiscretionShot the game cuts away before his claw makes direct contact, however]]).]]