Life Is Strange: Before the Storm vs The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is an action-adventure horror game (2017) while The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a free to play game from DONTNOD Entertainment (2018).
What each one is
Steam files Life Is Strange: Before the Storm under Action-Adventure and Horror. In contrast, it files The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit under Free To Play and Story Rich.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2
At a glance
| Life Is Strange: Before the Storm | The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | 7.8/10 | 7.8/10 |
| Steam rating | Very Positive (93%, 37,879) | Very Positive (93%, 15,089) |
| Critic aggregate | 77/100 | 79/100 |
| Price | $16.99 | Free |
| Install size | 14 GB | 5 GB |
| Steam Deck | playable | verified |
| Released | 2017 | 2018 |
| Developer | — | DONTNOD Entertainment |
Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm vs The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, point by point
Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.
Genre and premise
Life Is Strange: Before the StormAction-adventure horror gameThe Awesome Adventures of Captain SpiritFree to play gameWhat each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.
How it plays
Life Is Strange: Before the StormStory Rich, Choices Matter, Female ProtagonistThe Awesome Adventures of Captain SpiritFree to Play, Story Rich, AdventureThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
Life Is Strange: Before the StormScore 7.8 · 93% on Steam · 77 criticThe Awesome Adventures of Captain SpiritScore 7.8 · 93% on Steam · 79 criticThe GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Content and scale
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm37,879 reviews · 5 add-ons · 14 GBThe Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit15,089 reviews · 5 GBReach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.
Price
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm$16.99The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit ✓FreeRead live from Steam and subject to change.
On a Steam Deck
Life Is Strange: Before the StormPlayableThe Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit ✓VerifiedValve's own Deck compatibility rating.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit takes 2 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.
The two on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueLife Is Strange: Before the Storm and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so each dot is its real position. Change either axis to compare them on any measure.
2 games have both
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Mobile
- PC
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How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
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- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Which to pick, by what you want
- The cheaper right now: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (Free)
- Better on a Steam Deck: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (verified)
- Lighter on storage: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (5 GB)
- The safer bet by weight of reviews: Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (37,879 reviews)
What they have in common
Both are tagged by Steam players with:
Story RichChoices MatterGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericSingleplayerAdventureThird PersonDrama
Where they differ
Female ProtagonistEpisodicChoose Your Own AdventureMultiple EndingsMysteryLGBTQ+
Free to PlaySuperheroShortControllerCasualEmotional
Tags players apply to one game and not the other.
Difficulty and who each is for
By the tags players apply, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is relaxed, easy to pick up.
System requirements, side by side
| Life Is Strange: Before the Storm | The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum GPU | AMD Radeon R7 250 | — |
| Minimum CPU | Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) | — |
| Minimum RAM | 3 GB | — |
| Install size | 14 GB | 5 GB |
Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Life Is Strange: Before the Storm · The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 4 accessibility features for Life Is Strange: Before the Storm and 1 for The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
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Common questions
How different are Life Is Strange: Before the Storm and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit in scope?
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm has drawn 37,879 Steam reviews, ships 5 add-ons and installs in 14 GB. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit has drawn 15,089 Steam reviews and installs in 5 GB.
Is Life Is Strange: Before the Storm or The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit better?
By the GamingPickz Score, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm rates higher (7.8 to 7.8). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.
Which is cheaper, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm or The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is cheaper right now at Free, against $16.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.
Do you rank one above the other for a fee?
No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.
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How we compare, and what we will not do
The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.