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Game

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

2017 · PlayStation 4 · Linux · Android · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS · Mac · Adventure · Indie

76IGDB player score
508 ratings

Previously Take

A 76 average from 508 ratings. Does what it sets out to do, no more and no less. An adventure game leaning hard into fantasy, science fiction — more about the journey than the destination. A single-player game with no interest in being anything else. Respect.

About this game

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Set three years before Max’s return to her hometown of Arcadia Bay in Life Is Strange, the story shows how Chloe and Rachel meet, bond, and grow into a force of nature.

Screenshots

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Game facts

Release date

Aug 31, 2017

Developer

Deck Nine

Publisher

Square Enix

Platforms

PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One

Genres

Adventure, Indie

Themes

Action, Fantasy, Science fiction, Drama, Mystery

Game modes

Single player

Franchise

Life is Strange

Perspective

Third person

Critic score

77 / 100 (9 reviews)

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