Comparison

Sara is Missing vs Before Your Eyes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sara is Missing

Investigate a missing person's phone to uncover clues about their disappearance. Explore messages, photos, and files to piece together their final days and discover what happened.

Highlights
  • Investigate messages, notes, emails, pictures, and videos
  • Unlock password-protected files
  • Decrypt lost data
  • Multiple choices with multiple endings
  • Simulated mobile phone helper
  • Typing mechanic similar to messaging apps
Features
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You found a phone belonging to a missing person. What would you do? Sara has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and your only lead is her mobile phone. Search for clues by investigating Sara's personal messages, notes, emails, pictures and videos while trying to piece together her final days. Unlock password protected files, uncover hidden messages and decrypt lost data and figure out where she went, what she did, and how someone can disappear without a trace so suddenly. Features: - Multiple choices will lead to multiple outcomes and endings. - Chat with different people at the same time. - Receive phone calls from NPCs and other mysterious callers. - Hidden sub plots and extra information to unlock. - Receive videos and photos from other NPCs. - Simulated mobile phone helper, providing hints. - Utilizing a similar typing mechanic as popular messaging apps. More info at: www.saraismissing.com

About

Before Your Eyes

Experience an emotional first-person adventure where your blinks control the narrative and its outcome. Relive significant life moments as a soul journeys through the afterlife, uncovering repressed memories and confronting a heartbreaking truth.

Highlights
  • Blink-controlled narrative
  • First-person adventure
  • Life journey simulation
  • Memory exploration
  • Voice-acted story
  • Emotional storytelling
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Embark on an emotional first-person adventure where you control the story — and affect the outcome — with your real-life blinks. Dive into a world of memories and experience a soul’s journey into the afterlife as your whole life flashes before your eyes. It all begins after you die. You're aboard the ship of a mysterious man tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. To help you pass on, he must learn the story of your life. Then he sends you back to relive your most important moments. The game uses your device's camera to fully immerse you in the story. Control the flow of the narrative with your real-life eyes – blinking through precious memories of family, first love and the birth of an artistic career. Dare to look deeper and delve into your most repressed memories, where a heartbreaking truth awaits. Combining an innovative blink-interaction mechanic with a charming world and fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey — one that explores the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.

Screenshots

Sara is Missing4 screens
Before Your Eyes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Before Your Eyes at 4.7 against Sara is Missing's 3.7. Before Your Eyes also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 66%). Sara is Missing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Before Your Eyes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Sara is Missing asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Before Your Eyes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.8K and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Sara is Missing's written reviews are positive against 87% of Before Your Eyes's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sara is Missing versus Before Your Eyes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSara is MissingBefore Your Eyes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (2.8K ratings)4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.4% of reviews86.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better1.1K
Update frequency—Every 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB1.3 GB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperKAIGAN GAMES OUeNetflix, Inc.

Customer experience

Sara is Missing

All ratings2,803 ratings
Positive66.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative25.5%
Written reviews741 reviews
Positive66.4%
Neutral12.1%
Negative21.5%

Before Your Eyes

All ratings1,090 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews388 reviews
Positive86.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%

User reviews

Sara is Missing

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎉 Amazing game
  • 👍 Immersive and engaging
  • 🕵️‍♀️ Interesting mystery
  • 🔥 Creepy and thrilling
  • 💯 Great value for free game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🤔 Unsatisfying or abrupt ending
  • 🕰️ Too short gameplay
  • 🔍 Lack of character development
  • 🚨 Disturbing/graphic content

Before Your Eyes

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Engaging gameplay
  • 👍 Unique and immersive experience
  • 🎨 Beautiful art style
  • 💔 Emotionally impactful story
  • 🎬 Cinematic presentation

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional technical issues with eye tracking
  • ⏱️ Short playtime
  • 🤔 Lack of replay value

Bugs and requests

Sara is Missing

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game restarting/resetting progress
  • Redirecting to suspicious websites
  • Causing phone glitches or issues
  • Difficulty accessing certain features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Longer gameplay and story
  • More branching choices and endings
  • Ability to save progress
  • Expansion of lore and backstory
  • Option to avoid graphic content

Before Your Eyes

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Eye tracking not always accurate
  • Game freezes or crashes on some devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to disable eye tracking
  • More branching storylines or multiple endings
  • Ability to save progress

In-app purchases

None

Sara is Missing

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Before Your Eyes

Subscriptions1
  • Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Sara is Missing free?
Sara is Missing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Before Your Eyes free?
Before Your Eyes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sara is Missing or Before Your Eyes?
Before Your Eyes is rated higher. Sara is Missing averages 3.7 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Before Your Eyes averages 4.7 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Sara is Missing or Before Your Eyes have ads?
Neither Sara is Missing nor Before Your Eyes shows ads.

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