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The Inner Eye is a passive item.

Effects[ | ]

  • Isaac fires a spread of three tears at once.
  • (except in Repentance) Tears down: (Delay * 2.1) + 3
    • (in Repentance) Tears fired per second * 0.51.

Notes[ | ]

  • The maximum number of tears per volley that can be reached by combining and/or duplicating Collectible 20 20 icon20/20, The Inner Eye, Collectible Mutant Spider iconMutant Spider and (except in Rebirth)Collectible The Wiz iconThe Wiz is 16, or 20 with Character Keeper iconKeeper.

Synergies[ | ]

  • (in Repentance)Collectible Abyss iconAbyss: When Isaac uses Abyss to absorb The Inner Eye it creates three locusts instead of one.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Cursed Eye iconCursed Eye: At full charge, fires 3 rows of 4 tears, resulting in 12 tears.
    • (in Repentance) At full charge, fires 3 rows of 5 tears, resulting in 15 tears.
  • Collectible Doctor's Remote iconDoctor's Remote / Collectible Epic Fetus iconEpic Fetus: Replaces the single missile strike with a barrage of three consecutive missiles.
  • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †)Collectible The Inner Eye iconThe Inner Eye: Effects stack, resulting in 6 tears being shot with no further decrease in fire rate.
    • (in Repentance) Adds an additional tear with no further decrease in fire rate. This can be stacked up to 16 tears.
  • Collectible The Ludovico Technique iconThe Ludovico Technique: The tear gains two orbiting tears.
  • Collectible Mom's Knife iconMom's Knife: 3 knives are fired.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Polyphemus iconPolyphemus: Tear rate is not lowered further. Damage is increased by a flat +5 instead of a normal Polyphemus boost.
    • (in Repentance) Damage is increased by a flat +5 instead of a normal Polyphemus boost. Decreases fire rate by a little.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Tractor Beam iconTractor Beam: All tears are fired along the beam, but some may be hard to see as they overlap each other.

Interactions[ | ]

  • (in Rebirth)Collectible 20 20 icon20/20: Overridden by The Inner Eye.
    • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †) Shoots 5 tears with no further decrease in fire rate.
    • (in Repentance) Removes the fire rate penalty while reducing damage to 80%. Additional copies will add one additional tear with no further change to damage/fire rate.
  • Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone: Fires 3 beams. Affects Azazel's short-ranged Brimstone similarly.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) Character The Forgotten iconThe Forgotten: Triples bones thrown and swung. Significant decrease in fire rate.
  • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †) Character Keeper iconKeeper: Fires 6 tears with significantly decreased fire rate.
    • (in Repentance) Fires 4 tears with significantly decreased fire rate.
  • (in Repentance) Character Tainted Keeper iconTainted Keeper: Only fires 5 tears in the volley, while still gaining significantly decreased fire rate.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Kidney Stone iconKidney Stone: Increase number of tears in tear barrage; however, only fires one stone.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Lead Pencil iconLead Pencil: The barrage will activate as normal but Isaac will sometimes fire red tears.
  • Collectible Loki's Horns iconLoki's Horns: Only occasionally fires one tear in the other three directions.
  • Collectible Mom's Eye iconMom's Eye: Only occasionally fires one tear out of the back of Isaac's head.
  • (in Rebirth)Collectible Mutant Spider iconMutant Spider: Overrides The Inner Eye.
    • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †) Shoots 7 tears instead of 3. No further decrease in fire rate.
      • (in Repentance) Shoots 5 tears instead of 3. Decreases fire rate by a little.
  • Collectible Monstro's Lung iconMonstro's Lung: Adds 5 tears to barrage with a significant decrease in fire rate.
  • Collectible Sad Bombs iconSad Bombs: Does not affect the number of tears when bombs explode.
  • Collectible Technology 2 iconTechnology 2: The laser is not affected by The Inner Eye.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Varicose Veins iconVaricose Veins: No effect on number of tears when taking damage.

In-game footage[ | ]

Trivia[ | ]

  • The Inner Eye is a reference to the concept of the 'third eye', an idea popular in Eastern mysticism dictating the existence of an invisible third eye usually located on a person's forehead which would allow them to see beyond normal reality.
  • (in Repentance) The eye on Character ??? (Character) icon???'s head appears as an X, similar to this character's other eyes


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