Close Your Eyes (Ludum Dare)

Close Your Eyes is the very first version of the game, and was made for 2014 Ludum Dare, with the theme of the competition being Beneath the Surface.

You can download the original Ludum Dare version of Close Your Eyes here.

Differences
The original version of Close Your Eyes had a number of differences to the final version. For one, it is significantly shorter than the finalized game, and features a much, much longer version of the opening stair sequence & ladder/train track descent scene. The first half of the game is mostly the same, just less refined. It is missing the whole cassette sequence (the opening stairs downward go straight to the train puzzle), but it changes significantly after the giant skull area puzzle.

Probably the most striking difference in this original version of Close Your Eyes is the infamous Southern Talking Spider, who played the antagonist of the original game.

The Host is still present, but plays a more minor side role (though is implied to be the darker threat in the original game's final sequence, a scene cut from the final game).

Trivia

 * AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem asked not to take many of the things from the original version of CYE as 'canon', as the story was drastically changed when the game was reworked for the Redux version. One interesting tidbit from the original game that may remain true is the implication that The Girl is not actually dead, but in a vegetative coma after Marshmallow Monk's murder attempt.