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Life is Strange - Episode 1

by DON'T NOD

  • Released Jan 29, 2015
  • Free
  • 10 h to beat
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • PlayStation 3
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One

96%positive reviews

170,106 positive6,613 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Emotional story and characters

  • Clever choices and consequences in the story

Cons

  • Final episode undermines the choices made earlier

  • Endings and writing criticised

Mixed

  • Some find it a memorable story, others find the final episode a letdown

Media

Episode 3 Launch Trailer (YouTube)Episode 1 Launch Trailer (YouTube)Limited Edition Trailer (YouTube)Episode 2 Launch Trailer (YouTube)

DLC, expansions and more

Remasters (1)

System requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows Vista

Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards)

DirectX: Version 9.0

Storage: 5 GB available space

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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.

You are Max, a photography senior who saves her old friend Chloe by discovering she can rewind time. The…

Ratings

  • 83IGDB players1,896 ratings
  • 79Critics7 reviews
  • 81Overall1,903 scores

Time to beat

  • 9.5 hStory onlyto the credits
  • 15.6 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 21 hCompletionist100%

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Spanish (Spain)

Links

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