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* AdultFear: Rae wasn't born blind -- she lost her sight at the beginning of the story. Also, loneliness.
** Not to mention the premise of the game: a young girl, recently gone blind, walking around without any supervision looking for her cat - especially when she reaches the [[spoiler:docks]]

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** Not to mention the premise of the game: a young girl, recently gone blind, walking around without any supervision looking for her cat.

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** Not to mention the premise of the game: a young girl, recently gone blind, walking around without any supervision looking for her cat.cat - especially when she reaches the [[spoiler:docks]]


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* CreepyCrows: Rae certainly thinks so.

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* Arcadia: The game is set in a beautiful pastoral landscape with old stone walls, arches, fields and farm animals.



* Mordor: The road is initially represented in a way that calls this trope to mind. Of course, once Rae finds the zebra crossing she proceeds to WalkIntoMordor

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* Mordor: {{Mordor}}: The road is initially represented in a way that calls this trope to mind. Of course, once Rae finds the zebra crossing she proceeds to WalkIntoMordor
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* DeusExMachina: Very minor (and justified) example when a scary dog blocking Rae's path is called away by its owner.


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* Mordor: The road is initially represented in a way that calls this trope to mind. Of course, once Rae finds the zebra crossing she proceeds to WalkIntoMordor
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* RayOfHopeEnding: In the end, Rae [[spoiler: finds Nani dead, seemingly [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory making her entire journey have been for nothing.]] However, later Lily, a girl she met along the way, comes to visit her.]]
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Rae can't see and therefore can't be sure of anything she isn't close enough to touch... but she ''does'' seem to be blessed with excellent memory and the ability to perfectly estimate distances, since anything she has explored remains visible for the player.
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''Beyond Eyes'' is a 2015 EnvironmentalNarrativeGame for PC, XBoxOne and PlayStation4, developed by Dutch indie game studio Tiger & Squid, and published by [=Team17=]. You play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

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''Beyond Eyes'' is a 2015 EnvironmentalNarrativeGame for PC, XBoxOne UsefulNotes/XBoxOne and PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, developed by Dutch indie game studio Tiger & Squid, and published by [=Team17=]. You play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.
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''Beyond Eyes'' is a 2015 EnvironmentalNarrativeGame for PC, XBoxOne and PlayStation4, developed by Dutch indie gamestudio, Tiger & Squid and published by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

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''Beyond Eyes'' is a 2015 EnvironmentalNarrativeGame for PC, XBoxOne and PlayStation4, developed by Dutch indie gamestudio, game studio Tiger & Squid Squid, and published by [=Team17=] where you [=Team17=]. You play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.
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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame developed by Dutch indie gamestudio, Tiger & Squid and published by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

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''Beyond Eyes'' is an a 2015 EnvironmentalNarrativeGame for PC, XBoxOne and PlayStation4, developed by Dutch indie gamestudio, Tiger & Squid and published by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.
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There are [[NoAntagonist no enemies]], nor any puzzles more complex than "bring object A to point B". It is perhaps one of the definite examples of the phrase "walking simulator" as nearly the entire gameplay consists of slow, cautious walking. It is, however, beautiful, inspirational, and just short enough not to wear its welcome.

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There are [[NoAntagonist no enemies]], nor any puzzles more complex than "bring object A to point B". It is perhaps one of the definite examples of the phrase "walking simulator" as nearly the entire gameplay consists of slow, cautious walking. It is, however, beautiful, inspirational, and just short enough not to wear out its welcome.
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** Not to mention the premise of the game: a young girl, recently gone blind, walking around without any supervision looking for her cat.
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There are no enemies, nor any puzzles more complex than "bring object A to point B". It is perhaps one of the definite examples of the phrase "walking simulator" as nearly the entire gameplay consists of slow, cautious walking. It is, however, beautiful, inspirational, and just short enough not to wear its welcome.

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There are [[NoAntagonist no enemies, enemies]], nor any puzzles more complex than "bring object A to point B". It is perhaps one of the definite examples of the phrase "walking simulator" as nearly the entire gameplay consists of slow, cautious walking. It is, however, beautiful, inspirational, and just short enough not to wear its welcome.
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* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Alongside walls and fences, these act as zone boundaries. You cannot jump and can only climb over a few scripted obstacles, so that is a given. Impassable bushes, uncrossable streams, unclimbable benches, and sometimes gaps just too narrow to walk through...

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* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Alongside walls and believably tall fences, these act as zone boundaries. You cannot jump and can only climb over a few scripted obstacles, so that is a given. Impassable bushes, uncrossable streams, unclimbable benches, and sometimes gaps just too narrow to walk through...
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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame developed by Dutch indie gamestudio, Tiger & Squid and published by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.
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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame by [=Team17=] where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.
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* BeautifulVoid: There are very few other humans around, and all but one of those ignore Rae's presence. ([[spoiler:The one who doesn't, a girl named Lily of about Rae's age, eventually befriends Rae in the end.]]) The world just looks... almost abandoned. There are, however, animals and birds aplenty, some of them used as obstacles. Also a more literal example in that unexplored areas appear as empty white space.

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* BeautifulVoid: There are very few other humans around, and all but one of those them ignore Rae's presence. ([[spoiler:The one who doesn't, a girl named Lily of about Rae's age, eventually befriends Rae in the end.]]) The world just looks... almost abandoned. There are, however, animals and birds aplenty, some of them used as obstacles. Also a more literal example in that unexplored areas appear as empty white space.
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''Beyond Eyes'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame where you play as a girl named Rae walking around serene, nearly deserted suburban environments in search for her lost cat, Nani. The twist? She is blind, so she has to rely on other senses to explore the world around her, which are represented as a dream-like pastel-colored landscape that shifts and morphs around Rae as she learns more about it.

There are no enemies, nor any puzzles more complex than "bring object A to point B". It is perhaps one of the definite examples of the phrase "walking simulator" as nearly the entire gameplay consists of slow, cautious walking. It is, however, beautiful, inspirational, and just short enough not to wear its welcome.

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!!This game provides examples of:

* AdultFear: Rae wasn't born blind -- she lost her sight at the beginning of the story. Also, loneliness.
* ArtGame
* BeautifulVoid: There are very few other humans around, and all but one of those ignore Rae's presence. ([[spoiler:The one who doesn't, a girl named Lily of about Rae's age, eventually befriends Rae in the end.]]) The world just looks... almost abandoned. There are, however, animals and birds aplenty, some of them used as obstacles. Also a more literal example in that unexplored areas appear as empty white space.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Nani is gone, but Rae finds a new, human friend.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Being blind, Rae is challenged even by mundane obstacles that would pose no problem to a non-handicapped person, such as road traffic and dogs. Still, she pushes through in her quest to be reunited with Nani.
* EmpathicEnvironment: Justified, as the visuals are woven by Rae's imagination. The most obvious example of this trope is the colors getting muted and darker when Rae is afraid.
* EnvironmentalNarrativeGame
* ExcusePlot: Your cat is gone, go find it! [[spoiler:And then there's the twist in the end...]]
* FogOfWar: The unexplored white void. It temporarily gets worse in Chapter 5, where rain obscures everything except objects in the closest vicinity, even erasing previously visited areas.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's not actually that gray, but it does subdue the otherwise vibrant colors, and is indeed quite depressing.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Alongside walls and fences, these act as zone boundaries. You cannot jump and can only climb over a few scripted obstacles, so that is a given. Impassable bushes, uncrossable streams, unclimbable benches, and sometimes gaps just too narrow to walk through...
* {{Minimalism}}
* SceneryPorn: As expected for the genre.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: You can be a FriendToAllLivingThings if you choose to, feeding a cow, ducks, and befriending an angry dog.

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