Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Life Is Strange is an adventure developed by DON'T NOD, released 29 January 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is free to play. The main story takes about 15.6 hrs to finish.
What Life Is Strange is
Life Is Strange is an adventure game developed by DON'T NOD and released in 2015. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Max, a photography senior who saves her old friend Chloe by discovering she can rewind time. The pair soon find themselves exposed to the darker side of Arcadia Bay as they uncover the disturbing truth behind the sudden disappearance of a fellow student. Meanwhile, Max begins to have premonitions as she struggles to understand the implications of her power. She must quickly learn that changing the past can sometimes lead to a devastating future.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 60 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Life is Strange series
Life Is Strange is the first of 18 entries we hold in the Life is Strange series. The next entry was Life Is Strange: Limited Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 79 is almost exactly the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Life is Strange: True Colors at 84.
How it was received
Life Is Strange holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 1,902 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 21 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Life Is Strange launched on 29 January 2015, within three weeks of Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Life Is Strange yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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