The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The father is a heavy drinker whose beer cans and drinking are visibly depicted around the home as part of the story.
The story centers on a boy processing his mother's death while living with an alcoholic father whose neglect and anger hint at physical abuse.
The grieving, alcoholic father speaks harshly and swears in dialogue.
A 9-year-old boy pretends to fight imaginary supervillains and monsters during make-believe superhero play; no real, bloody, or realistic violence.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
This is a short, free narrative adventure set in the Life is Strange universe, played as Chris, a 9-year-old boy who invents a superhero alter ego, Captain Spirit, to cope with the recent death of his mother. Gameplay is gentle exploration of his home and yard, interacting with objects and making dialogue choices, with the boy's chores reimagined as playful superhero battles against 'supervillains.' There is no graphic content: violence is limited to a child's make-believe superhero play. The mature tone comes from its subject matter — grief over a lost parent and life with a father who drinks heavily and is quietly short-tempered, with alcohol visibly present in the home and occasional profanity in dialogue.
How it's framed
The game treats loss and a difficult family situation seriously and empathetically, using the boy's bright superhero imagination as a coping lens against a somber real-world backdrop; the father's drinking and the family's strain are presented as sad realities rather than glamorized, and choices are framed around kindness and understanding.
Details
- Developer
- DONTNOD Entertainment
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Released
- Jun 25, 2018
Similar games
We built this because we needed it
Balanced Play pools your kids' game time into one budget across Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and more. We're taking 100 founding families — free for life.
Claim a founding spot →Free for life for the first 100. No card, no spam.