Life is Strange
Life is Strange is a PC action game developed by Don't Nod. It centers on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
Life is Strange is a PC action game centered on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives. Stages build pressure through routes, enemy patterns, and changing objectives, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Animation, hits, camera behavior, and readable hazards determine whether feedback remains dependable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Life is Strange follows ordinary people through difficult relationships, personal choices and extraordinary circumstances. Conversations and exploration carry its stories, with supernatural abilities in some entries offering unusual ways to understand people or reconsider an action.
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AI review
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Rewinding and intimate relationships create real emotion, despite uneven resolution and interaction.
Life is Strange makes rewinding serve hesitation, regret and judgments about other people. Comparing choices within a scene does not make later consequences easy to escape, giving ordinary relationships weight. Max and Chloe’s conversations, quiet locations and performances form the season’s most memorable material, with painterly environments reinforcing its personal atmosphere. Across five episodes, school life, mystery and supernatural crisis do not always fit together smoothly. Some developments are affecting, while parts of the resolution and occasional busywork fall short of the early promise. The original PC edition offers adjustable keyboard bindings and subtitle sizes, but click-and-drag interaction and incomplete ambient captions remain limitations. It suits players interested in imperfect people and emotional consequences rather than limitless branching.
Strengths
- Rewinding tied to emotional choices
- Intimate atmosphere and performances
Weaknesses
- Uneven pacing and resolution
- Awkward mouse interaction and caption gaps
Who it is for: Players drawn to relationships, emotional stories and quiet exploration.
Play notes: Original 2015 PC five-episode season, not the remaster; suicide, bullying and sexual violence themes.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Individual moments resonate more consistently than the overall pacing and resolution. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Rewinding gives interpersonal choices meaningful emotional weight. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Atmosphere and performances give intimate emotions unusual clarity. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Useful options coexist with awkward interaction and incomplete caption coverage. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Don't Nod
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release date
- 2015
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genreAdventure
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsReplayableReal-time CombatSolo-friendlyLinear LevelsDodgeThird PersonMain Story Under 10 HoursFast-pacedPlatforming
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
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Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2015
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