Analog horror Psychological horror Night shift horror

Para Eyes

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Watch the cameras, report what changed, and hold on to your sanity until morning.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (96% of 152 reviews)
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: switch between cameras and click to open the report system.
Made by: Shawno Studios
Released: 2025

On PC: one of the PC horror games.

What frightens Alone through the night with a bank of live security cameras, you hunt for what has changed in each room: creepy figures, distorted objects, things that should not be there. You must keep your sanity through the night, and a story behind the footage slowly comes out.
Content: blood, violence.

Para Eyes is a spot-the-difference horror game by Shawno Studios. You watch live security cameras through the night, report every anomaly you find and try to keep your sanity, while a story about what is going on unfolds across its maps.

About Para Eyes

Para Eyes is the work of Shawno Studios. It entered Early Access on Steam in October 2022 and was released in full on 9 July 2025, for Windows.

You are responsible for watching a set of live security cameras. Each feed shows an ordinary place: a family's kitchen and bedrooms, a school's music room and locker room, a lakeshore and a campsite at night. Over the hours things change. An object moves, something appears that was not there, a figure stands where the room was empty. You must find each change, report it through the camera system, and survive the night. A sanity meter shows how well you are holding up.

Between nights you collect rewards and spend the game's currency on research, unlocking new maps, more anomalies and items. Higher difficulties add more cameras and make anomalies appear faster, and a shuffle mode builds a random set of cameras. Its maker promises a story underneath, with secrets that appear and a truth that comes out as you play.

It plays in the same vein as I'm on Observation Duty: slow, careful watching broken by the jolt of noticing that something is wrong. The store warns of blood and violence. It suits players who like memory tests with a creeping sense of dread.

How to play Para Eyes

Pick a map and a difficulty, or play shuffle mode for a random set of cameras.
Flip through every camera early on and memorise how each room looks.
When something has changed, open the report system and report the anomaly in the right room.
Keep an eye on your sanity meter and survive until morning.
Spend your rewards on research to unlock new maps, anomalies and items.

Screenshots

Para Eyes screenshot: a security camera view of a dim kitchen at 12:06, with the scanning mark on an open cabinet door and a sanity bar below

Para Eyes screenshot: the camera feed of Grandma's bedroom, with an iron bed and a crucifix on the wall

Para Eyes screenshot: a blue-tiled school locker room on camera at 05:29, with a tall dark cabinet in the middle

Para Eyes screenshot: a night camera on Camp Site 7, with tents, a lantern and chairs around a campfire

Tips

Cycle through the cameras in a fixed order so no room goes unchecked for long.
Small changes count: look at shelves, doors and the edges of the picture, not only the middle.
Start on an easy difficulty to learn the maps before more cameras are added.

Questions

What kind of game is Para Eyes?

A spot-the-difference horror game: you watch security cameras and report anomalies to survive the night.

Is Para Eyes like I'm on Observation Duty?

Yes, it uses the same camera-watching formula, with unlockable maps and anomalies and a story underneath.

Is Para Eyes on consoles?

No, it is on PC through Steam.

Is Para Eyes scary?

It builds paranoia rather than constant scares: creepy figures and changes appear in rooms you thought you knew. The store warns of blood and violence.