Comparison

Thunderbird Strike vs Before Your Eyes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Thunderbird Strike

Fly as a thunderbird in this 2D sidescroller, defending Turtle Island from a destructive snake. Use searing lightning to protect the lands and waters from the Great Lakes to the Tar Sands.

Highlights
  • 2D sidescrolling gameplay
  • Play as a thunderbird
  • Defend Turtle Island
  • Use lightning attacks
  • Protect lands and waters
Features
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In the 2D sidescroller Thunderbird Strike, fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole.

About

Before Your Eyes

Experience an emotional first-person adventure where your blinks control the narrative and its outcome. Relive significant life moments as a soul journeys through the afterlife, uncovering repressed memories and confronting a heartbreaking truth.

Highlights
  • Blink-controlled narrative
  • First-person adventure
  • Life journey simulation
  • Memory exploration
  • Voice-acted story
  • Emotional storytelling
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Embark on an emotional first-person adventure where you control the story — and affect the outcome — with your real-life blinks. Dive into a world of memories and experience a soul’s journey into the afterlife as your whole life flashes before your eyes. It all begins after you die. You're aboard the ship of a mysterious man tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. To help you pass on, he must learn the story of your life. Then he sends you back to relive your most important moments. The game uses your device's camera to fully immerse you in the story. Control the flow of the narrative with your real-life eyes – blinking through precious memories of family, first love and the birth of an artistic career. Dare to look deeper and delve into your most repressed memories, where a heartbreaking truth awaits. Combining an innovative blink-interaction mechanic with a charming world and fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey — one that explores the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.

Screenshots

Thunderbird Strike1 screens
Before Your Eyes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Before Your Eyes at 4.7 against Thunderbird Strike's 4.2. Before Your Eyes also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 53%) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 39). Thunderbird Strike's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Before Your Eyes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Thunderbird Strike asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Before Your Eyes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Before Your Eyes has 1.1K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Thunderbird Strike's written reviews are positive against 87% of Before Your Eyes's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Thunderbird Strike versus Before Your Eyes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThunderbird StrikeBefore Your Eyes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (39 ratings)4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews86.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings391.1K — better
Update frequency—Every 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size614 MB1.3 GB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperElizabeth LaPenseeNetflix Entretenimento Brasil, Ltda.

Customer experience

Thunderbird Strike

All ratings39 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.5%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral5.9%
Negative41.2%

Before Your Eyes

All ratings1,090 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews388 reviews
Positive86.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%

Bugs and requests

Thunderbird Strike

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Before Your Eyes

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Eye tracking not always accurate
  • Game freezes or crashes on some devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to disable eye tracking
  • More branching storylines or multiple endings
  • Ability to save progress

In-app purchases

None

Thunderbird Strike

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Before Your Eyes

Subscriptions1
  • Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Thunderbird Strike free?
Thunderbird Strike is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Before Your Eyes free?
Before Your Eyes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Thunderbird Strike or Before Your Eyes?
Before Your Eyes is rated higher. Thunderbird Strike averages 4.2 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Before Your Eyes averages 4.7 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Thunderbird Strike or Before Your Eyes have ads?
Neither Thunderbird Strike nor Before Your Eyes shows ads.

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