Echo | Interesting Game Menus

Echo was a third-person action/adventure game developed by Ultra Ultra and released in 2017. The game’s main menu backdrop appears to be the protagonist’s eye, zoomed in and rendered in great detail. You can hear En (the aforementioned protagonist) breathing and the rumble of deep space in the distance. The eye is cast in darkness, but it’s focus follows the player’s mouse movements. When rolled towards the left or right of the screen, menus appear and shine blue light almost like a laser display projected directly onto the eyeball. En’s pupil contracts in reaction to the light, dilating again when focus is shifted away from the menu. Focusing the eye on the bottom of the screen highlights the “quit“ function, casting a foreboding, red light. Submenus of the main menu are typical boxes of rows and columns.