Life is Strange

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8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3257 Ratings

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  1. Theorycrafter
    Jan 7, 2016
    0
    It was described as a game about choices and consequences with "multiple endings".

    They were dealing with the consequences of choices well in the first 4 episodes.

    Until they give you just 2 obvious choices in the last minute, making you wonder what was the point of playing because both of them make all your decisions irrelevant.
  2. YungDizuck
    Feb 5, 2015
    4
    This is an example of a game that takes many disparate supposed influences, then implements all of them badly. As usual with my reviews, I'm going to start off with the aesthetics of the game, then talk about the writing and dialogue, then conclude with mechanics, then summarize. Let's get started.

    First up, Life is Strange's design choices look like something that was put together by    This is an example of a game that takes many disparate supposed influences, then implements all of them badly. As usual with my reviews, I'm going to start off with the aesthetics of the game, then talk about the writing and dialogue, then conclude with mechanics, then summarize. Let's get started.

    First up, Life is Strange's design choices look like something that was put together by someone who has only experienced American youth culture secondhand. It takes extreme examples of some icons, then copy/pastes them together in some "hella" strange mixture of stereotypes that sort of belong in a satirical movie, ( which, in my opinion, this "game" desperately wants to be, but we'll get to that later.)
    You have the hipster teacher, complete with the stereotypical thick glasses, the well intentioned white knight Warren, Chloe, then of course, Max Caulfield. All of which would be great in a movie like say, Junebug. I find it rather flat and uninspiring. But hey, looks aren't everything right? Let's move on. The animation and graphics are quite dated looking, and the interface felt clunky.

    So let's talk about the writing. It bills itself as inspired by Twin Peaks, Donnie Darko, Groundhog Day, etc, yet captures nothing of the charm of any of those movies. The dialogue once again, felt like a satirized version of something someone heard that one time, from that really obnoxious teenager in that one movie. The dialogue is pretty cringey, and the portrayal of a lot of the characters in the game left me feeling no sense of attachment to any of them. I wonder how badly you have to miss the mark, if you have to bill yourself more to fans of movies, rather than gamers? I digress.

    Mechanically, again, the game feels clunky, it's a mess of casual pandering QTEs, and falls into some ridiculous adventure game tropes, which is odd, considering how much the marketing is billing itself as more of an interactive movie than as an actual game.

    So to summarize, I feel like this game is simply attempting to pander to the Telltale market, but ultimately fails to find anything in common with that demographic. If you're a fan of walking simulators like Gone Home, you'd probably find a lot to like here, but for a core gamer looking for something to actually play, I couldn't recommend spending money on it. There are better games out there with time rewinding mechanics, if that's your hook. I give it a solid 4 to a 5 at best. For fans of the genre only.    … Expand
  3. Zer0TheHer0
    Jan 10, 2016
    0
    could be a good game,too bad is plagued by a terrible shoulder camera that makes exploring and moving around extremely annoying and awkward.what a terrible trend.leave the character in the center of the screen,devs.
  4. RShackleford
    Oct 22, 2015
    0
    This game attempted to be highbrow - and by nature of things that TRY to be highbrow, fell incredibly short of that. The writing was utterly appalling, full of enough youthful cliché to be galling. It's unbelieveable, no-one, not even high school students are this waggish, it comes off as a parody. Apart from being paltry, the plot seems to be derivative at best, any Stephen King fans areThis game attempted to be highbrow - and by nature of things that TRY to be highbrow, fell incredibly short of that. The writing was utterly appalling, full of enough youthful cliché to be galling. It's unbelieveable, no-one, not even high school students are this waggish, it comes off as a parody. Apart from being paltry, the plot seems to be derivative at best, any Stephen King fans are going to see this derivation right away.

    All in all, this game is a collection of teenage tropes, not a story worth any kind of consideration, the fact that it is critically acclaimed FOR it's flaws, is a telling tale (pun intended) of the shoddy storywriting in games, even story-centric games.    … Expand
  5. Oblivixn
    Sep 11, 2015
    0
    Hipster nonsense. This game's dialog is one of the cringiest things I've ever heard in my life. It tries way too hard to be deep, when in actuality it is paper-thin. The story meanders for what seems like hours and still goes nowhere. The characters are unlikeable robots, and the cringe inducing dialog doesn't help. The lip syncing is god-awful, and the art style looks disgusting. TheHipster nonsense. This game's dialog is one of the cringiest things I've ever heard in my life. It tries way too hard to be deep, when in actuality it is paper-thin. The story meanders for what seems like hours and still goes nowhere. The characters are unlikeable robots, and the cringe inducing dialog doesn't help. The lip syncing is god-awful, and the art style looks disgusting. The music choice is hilariously bad. etc.

    Despite all that everyone will rave about this game, and if someone that doesn't like it comes along they will tell them that they just don't understand the game. **** those people. **** this game.    … Expand
  6. FromKanga
    Jan 13, 2018
    4
    Life is strange was a really disappointing game, I did want to love this game and I like dialogue heavy games but only if the characters and story are interesting or coherent but this game is none of those things.

    The story was a mess, it has one of the worst writing I've seen in a story-rich game, it keeps changing tone and there are so many moments in the game that don't make any    Life is strange was a really disappointing game, I did want to love this game and I like dialogue heavy games but only if the characters and story are interesting or coherent but this game is none of those things.

    The story was a mess, it has one of the worst writing I've seen in a story-rich game, it keeps changing tone and there are so many moments in the game that don't make any sense, also this game has one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a game, it makes all your decisions pointless no matter what you choose and it made feel like the entire game was a waste of time, I didn't felt invested in the story but the ending still managed to annoy me.

    The characters were poorly written, it probably doesn't help that the dialogue was atrocious, I just don't find Max to be that interesting of a character but at least she wasn't unlikeable like Chloe, I know she went through a lot but the decisions she makes are incredibly stupid and I never sided with her because of it, there were some characters that could have been interesting like David or Warren but their dialogue were terrible and we don't focus a lot on them. To me the worst characters were Victoria, Nathan and the teacher for having the worst lines in the entire game.

    There isn't a lot to talk about for the gameplay because you can tell that the developers didn't focused to much on it, they just wanted to tell the story, so the gameplay is weak but I kind of already expected that. The graphics are actually quite good for a story-rich game even if most of the character designs were awful, I've had so many glitches while playing that I had to restart the game a lot, the voice acting was bad and I don't like the soundtrack but that's because it's just not my type of music.

    Even if I was pretty harsh on this game I do believe there were some good things in it, they do TRY to develop the characters and have some emotional moments and the ideas and themes were pretty great but the execution unfortunately was weak for me. I feel like if they took more time fleshing out the story and characters, it could have the potential of being a good game, a great game even, I guess that this just isn't for me.    … Expand
  7. JohhnyDepressed
    Nov 10, 2019
    1
    There are only two good things in this game. Kate Marsh and watching bad things happen to the characters you hate. Which is all of them. Again, except Kate.
  8. steelreviewss
    Jul 9, 2020
    0
    Unlikable characters through and through. No real gameplay, should have been a movie.
    I just wanted this game to end.

    Your time is better invested in other games.
  9. PresidentTrump
    Jun 17, 2017
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sit back and grab some popcorn ladies and gentlemen because I have a lot to say about why I really don't like Life is Strange.
    Let's first start out on pros and cons so the retards that like this game can understand.
    Pros and Cons
    Pros:
    Interesting art directions
    Interesting attempt at time travel narrative
    Cons:
    The art direction is annoying.
    The time travel concept is done horribly.
    The writing is HORRIBLE.
    Your choices don't matter IN THE SLIGHTEST
    It isn't a video game

    At first, when I played this I thought the writing was satire but apparently, people think this is actually well written. It's realistic, it's how college campus students actually talk, but it's so annoying and unlikeable.

    The Time Travel mechanic makes no sense. Why does Max get a nose bleed before Kate kills herself? PLOT. Why does Chloe's death and nothing else that Max does affect everything such as answering the question in the beginning? Also, why does Max get her powers? Why can she suddenly travel through time through pictures? NONE of this is explained.

    CHLOE IS A TERRIBLE CHARACTER. She's an annoying histper character that the creators ACTUALLY try to make us care about. If they made her intentionally annoying and we are only supposed to like her because Max likes her and because this is Max's point of view, like a good video game would, then it would be good writing, but this isn't a good video game. It's barely a video game. More on that later. All the characters are trash. Max is bland and uninteresting. Warden is a cuck. Victoria is other there to be the b*tch character and Nathan is other there to hate. Nathan does become kind of good character after he releases he done diddley goofed and Mr. Jefferson is well written though, I will give them that as well.

    And the choices, oh the choices. The "game" tries to be a telltale "game" (don't know why you would want to) and gives you "choices" such as WATERING YOUR PLANT. And saving a girl from suicide. A girl that is inconsistent to the plot. The game tries to tell you that these choices matter. You are told this for 4 episodes. Then it becomes clear that you were just lied to and the game takes a massive steamy sh*t on itself and gives you two choices. Two. Save the annoying c*nt Chloe or kill everyone else. This really shows how effortless of an ending it gives you. Plus, the ending where you save Chloe is like 3 minutes long showing they REALLY didn't care
    .
    And finally. The game isn't a game. You walk around with an absurdly annoying shoulder camera and collect f*cking bottles and hold down a button to rewind time and then click one of four options to say. That's not a video game.

    All around Life is Strange has a few good moments such as the twist that Mr. Jefferson is the killer and there are a few funny moments but that's all hidden behind terrible storytelling and even worse writing. Episode one is free on steam. If you want to check that out and quickly discover how terrible it is. The bathroom scene is honestly what did it for me.    … Expand
  10. JaydenPickens
    May 22, 2019
    0
    If I had to describe this "game", I would call it: disjointed from reality FILTH. The game is supposed to be about a girl and her school life, yet we all know no school works like this. This is not how schools work, this is not how people behave. The game wants you to think, it's realistic with its story and character bulding, but it's so fake and plastic that it hurts my head. Nothing isIf I had to describe this "game", I would call it: disjointed from reality FILTH. The game is supposed to be about a girl and her school life, yet we all know no school works like this. This is not how schools work, this is not how people behave. The game wants you to think, it's realistic with its story and character bulding, but it's so fake and plastic that it hurts my head. Nothing is believable here. Everything is so poorly written and (as I said before) disjointed from reality, that you can't relate to it in any manner. It's sad, but the game is just a big waste of time. Don't play this. Life is indeed strange... and this game is sadly... sh**. Pickens walks away.… Expand
  11. Gamerbro
    Apr 25, 2019
    2
    Yeah, this game sucks.
    None of your "choices" matter. No matter what you do, you will always get the "one big choice!"

    Never play this. Ever
  12. BSim500
    Jan 19, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This review is marked spoiler because the plot is primarily what's wrong with the game (and it's impossible to discuss otherwise). By now you've probably read other negative reviews and figured out the problem - Episodes 1-4 build up a plot which Episode 5 literally makes zero sense of, leaving gaping plot holes in its wake and rendering the primary "gimmick" of the game pointless. You basically save the life of a friend in Episode 1 by rewinding time, then use that power from then on to help your friends. By series 5, you are "told" that use of that power has caused a storm that'll destroy the town. Your "choices":-

    Ending 1 - You "rewind your rewinds" back to the beginning to undo everything saving the town but causing your best friend to die. Great except it makes zero sense for two reasons as laid out in Ep1 : 1. You already saw the storm coming BEFORE you used your power for the first time (the storm is the opening scene in Ep1), so it wasn't using your power that caused it. 2: The "rewind time" is actually creating "alternative reality loops", in which each time you rewind, you spin another loop. So even if "rewinding" did 'cause' the storm, doing a "big rewind" won't undo anything, it'll just create another parallel loop that'll make the storm even worse... The storm itself makes zero sense and trying to "rewind the rewinds" is openly contradicted by some comments in Episode 1. This ending actually eliminates every reason to play (and replay) the game in the first place!

    Ending 2 - You don't "rewind time" and the town is destroyed but your best friend lives. After spending early episodes talking about dating boys, you then ride off into the sunset shacked up with her after magically turning lesbian... Given the developer is the same one who created "Gone Home", this "twist" really isn't a surprise. But ignoring that, "the storm" itself still makes zero sense as a "consequence" of your power given it was already brewing before you initially used your power (which is never explained HOW or WHY you got it)...

    There are a lot of other "issues" as well : Adults writing as "with-it teenagers" is never easy, but every 18-21 year old in the game seems to still act like the worst Hollywood stereotypes of the 12-16 age group. Writing was cringe-worthy in many lines and the whole "high school drama queen" theme felt more annoying than immersive. Likewise, hardly any of the characters were actually likeable. Two or three of your "friends" (including the girl you 'save' Chloe) were unfriendly, petty and annoying enough to want to not save. What on the surface of some interactions appears as an initial "air of intellectualism", later gets shown to be cheap attempts at emotional manipulation followed by screwing up the plot after a bloated script collapses under its own weight. By that I don't mean it's "difficult to understand" but rather they introduced so much "stuff" regarding other characters on top of the main plot, by the time the end came they either forgot or lacked time / money to wrap everything up they introduced.

    In short "Life Is Strange" is another of those "your choices really really matter this time" point and click adventure games where not only do most of your choices not matter in the slightest, the only important choice you do make 5 mins before the end of Episode 5 wipes out all of your choices anyway yet still makes no sense either way...    … Expand
  13. objectivelytrue
    Dec 10, 2015
    2
    The only reason to play an adventure game is for story, if you're an adult, have read books, have played games considered the best in setting and story, this will seem like an inept teen tale. Because it is. Since I didn't like the story, there was nothing left for me and I quit out. I won't bother to mention the technical difficulties because obviously the children who like it are willingThe only reason to play an adventure game is for story, if you're an adult, have read books, have played games considered the best in setting and story, this will seem like an inept teen tale. Because it is. Since I didn't like the story, there was nothing left for me and I quit out. I won't bother to mention the technical difficulties because obviously the children who like it are willing to put up with it, and I won't play a bad game even if it's designed well everywhere else. Negative points for being episodic.… Expand
  14. TheCyborgFalcon
    Dec 7, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Story looks great. Gameplay isn't worth it. How to do puzzles: Look for a solution. Oh no, did you fail? Rewind time. I only played the first chapter, but if the Gameplay isn't engaging from the start, I'm not going to buy more episodes (don't get me started on episodic releases. I'd rather watch this as a movie, but even then the characters are so fake with their "trendy and cool" dialogue attempting to appeal to younger audiences.… Expand
  15. aristotle61
    Jul 4, 2016
    0
    I really have to wonder about these reviews. This game, if you can call it that, fails on so many levels. The dialogue and pretentious politically correct nonsense makes it hard to keep playing even after only a few minutes of game play. Add to this the absurdity of the story from the opening minutes of the game, and I found myself constantly asking myself who could like this game?

    The    I really have to wonder about these reviews. This game, if you can call it that, fails on so many levels. The dialogue and pretentious politically correct nonsense makes it hard to keep playing even after only a few minutes of game play. Add to this the absurdity of the story from the opening minutes of the game, and I found myself constantly asking myself who could like this game?

    The dialogue literally made me cringe, and based on how quickly and thoroughly the game hits you with so many political messages, the mindset and political leanings of the developer become crystal clear. In just a few minutes you get an anti-gun message, an anti-bullying message (when will the bullying of minorities by white people stop?), a rich people are bad and can do whatever they want message, a men are sexist message, a climate change message, and of course, virtually all of the bad people are white. There is mention of a Vortex Club that is, apparently, bad, and filled with people who think they are better than everyone else. Your character points out a black student who is a member of this club, and for just a moment, I thought they might actually have a minority student who is being portrayed as something other than good or a victim, but just as soon as Max (the avatar) points out this student, she qualifies him as an exception. Whew! That would have been racist! And of course we can't forget about the Native Americans. You just have to mention them. Even if there is no reason too. (Just don't mention the native Indians of Mexico who were wiped out by the Spanish.) All of this in just the opening minutes of the game. It's amazing that no one else mentions this in any reviews.

    All of that nonsense aside, the game interface and pacing are awful. The characters are terrible. The graphics are lousy. However, if you like clicking on objects and hearing things like: "This is a camera, it is really cool.", and "This is a plasma TV that is really awesome!", or "They must have really spent bank on these computers!', then maybe this game is for you. It's also very "clever" how they are able to stretch out the game to avoid having too much actual content. After an initial boring sequence, the game actually makes you repeat the same sequence listening to the same painful dialogue again. What's not to like, right? This review is based on the first episode only. I'm sorry, but I couldn't bear going on any further.    … Expand
  16. stako
    Apr 14, 2016
    4
    "Life is Strange" is one of the most badly written and poorly designed, over-glorified modern story-driven games. Save for very few actually interesting moments, the game has nothing to offer. From the ground up, the game is set in a cliche filled world, inhabited by basic archetype characters, who do little to change things up or provoke a more-inteligent player. The puzzles offered are"Life is Strange" is one of the most badly written and poorly designed, over-glorified modern story-driven games. Save for very few actually interesting moments, the game has nothing to offer. From the ground up, the game is set in a cliche filled world, inhabited by basic archetype characters, who do little to change things up or provoke a more-inteligent player. The puzzles offered are dull and fall into the "time-waster" category, twists are extremely predictable and most characters have little to no actual motivation for their actions. And in the few cases they do - it's a thread that ends quickly. The plot offers solid foundations - the opportunity for something better is surely there, but the finished product can be bestly descibed as dissapointing. Missed opportunities are abound: taking photos is just for the collection, instead of a possible interesting mechanic, etc. The biggest problem of the game is that the protagonist's abilities make no sense. Not only do they rewrite actual science theories (while using others selectively), but they are inconsistent in the game itself. They bend at the will of the narrative, not to the player. Anyone who can think logically and has some reading experience in the sci-fi field will take this product as a complete insult to the genre. Sadly, that would be a perfect world. Ours is one in which this game gets praise for no reason, while actual gems are lost in the dirt. If you are a player, who has ever read a book and played at least a couple of good games in your life, stay away. There is nothing strange about Max's life - just cliches on top of cliches, covered in filters of unjustified reviews. "Life is Strange" is one of the worst story-driven games made to date.… Expand
  17. KnowTooMuch
    Oct 27, 2015
    2
    After Playing Point and click type games from the amazing telltale like the walking dead series i decided to try life is strange due to the mixed messages I've been getting....and sweet Jesus every single character is unlikable, Victoria in the game is the most despicable human being in any game I've played, the plot points such as no one believing max and think she is a habitual liar isAfter Playing Point and click type games from the amazing telltale like the walking dead series i decided to try life is strange due to the mixed messages I've been getting....and sweet Jesus every single character is unlikable, Victoria in the game is the most despicable human being in any game I've played, the plot points such as no one believing max and think she is a habitual liar is the most tired old cliche i have seen ever, and when it Isn't they are just forgotten about within a short time. How this game got an 8/10 i will never know...i guess this is what people see as good today which is sad.… Expand
  18. oz4n
    Jan 27, 2016
    4
    This game shouldn't get any higher than 5. After playing the fourth season for a while, I realized that my choices somehow were connected to a very few final decisions. So within the game, you don't actually "tailoring" anything, but just fooling yourself like "Oh I just saved an ass" and eventually realize that it was for nothing.
  19. johny_myko
    Jul 27, 2015
    2
    The game has good ideas and mechanics, but it's all ruined by cringe-worthy storyline, punchable and unrelatable characters, below average face animations and amateurish voice acting in most characters.
    After playing it, makes me want rewind time until back when this game was in development and stop it from happening.
  20. guillepankeke
    Jul 22, 2020
    0
    It is as bad art as tragedy gets to be, a tragedy is a dubious form of art. Since it isnt satisfying, a lie has the goal of frustrating us of something, art has the goal of satisfying us about something. The results in real life are opposite.
  21. Burriyatto
    Jan 13, 2021
    0
    я хотел поиграть игру в которой мне будут давать право выбора и я смогу как-то влиять на сюжет НО оказалось я играю в игру для 5-летних девачек которых можно обманывать и они будут ставить выские оценки на мета критике ноя не из таких когда я сел играть в игру я почуял запах калла когда понял что в игре нет выбора и при этоми она будет повествовать историю о двух обсолютно не интерестныхя хотел поиграть игру в которой мне будут давать право выбора и я смогу как-то влиять на сюжет НО оказалось я играю в игру для 5-летних девачек которых можно обманывать и они будут ставить выские оценки на мета критике ноя не из таких когда я сел играть в игру я почуял запах калла когда понял что в игре нет выбора и при этоми она будет повествовать историю о двух обсолютно не интерестных и тупоРЫЛЫХ типичных подросково дуунских героинях(речь о не наркотике) а общем если в кратце описывать игру можно сказать следующие: ГАВНО cgfcb,j pf dybvfybt… Expand
  22. Overpaid
    Nov 7, 2016
    2
    A terribly dull game. Its like a boring version of the vanishing of Ethan Carter, with half of the ideas split over ten times the duration. Cliched characters in cliched situations, made even more unbearable by terrible !quirky" indy music and a plaid wearing northwestern hipster utopia setting.
  23. Spotofpaint
    Aug 25, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I absolutely HATED episode five. I got really into this game and was very invested in it. Loved the idea of a choice based game. But as you play through it all gets darker and darker. By the time you get to the last episode it's so rapey I can't even believe they went so far with it. I mean, the main character ends up kidnapped, thrown in an underground bunker, duct taped to a chair, and her sicko teacher takes pictures of her after he drugs her. If that wasn't bad enough, you go back through time to try and fix it repeatedly. So episode 5 is basically you being kidnapped and put in that chair like SIX FREAKING TIMES! It seriously never ends. And after you get out, you have nightmares about it for the entire rest of the chapter. So it's all one giant hole of rapey disgustingness that repeats over and over again. Not my idea of "fun." The game was awesome up until that point! And I'm so disappointed in the end. NOT a good game for rape victims or people who've been molested or traumatized. And lets face it, this is a reality for girls. Not exactly something I need in my video games when I deal with it in real life.… Expand
  24. UserReviewsLUL
    Feb 15, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Waow... I have no words.

    What an absolute waste of time and money.
    With that said, I decided to give Life is Strange a try... and oh boy do I regret everything about it.

    First thing that messes with me is the mouse sensitivity, either you put that thing ALL the way down and make navigation in menus insufferably slow, but your camera doesn't fly round when you're in character mode... or you just have 2000% motion blur all the time but are able to normally use your menus.

    So... Starting a new game! Now, as a brand new player to the series, at least that's what I would consider myself, I went all in on the tutorials, getting things explained and show, little did I know I would have to sit and just read for hours before the game itself even started... or well, the game tutorial started. at this point I was already considering whether this was worth it since this lowered every expectation I already had... I mean how can I be expected to remember all this stuff with no way of getting it explained again unless I have to break the pace of the game ,minimize it and google stuff?

    So getting to moving around... barely, every time I move what seems no more than 10 meters, there's a new pop-up telling me "this is important and you do it like this, which will affect the world you play in" generic message. Cool choices matter, I get that by now.

    So (extremely) slowly and with a ton of pauses because of explanations, I FINALLY get to the combat section of the tutorial. And what do I get... never before have I had to read that much to understand a combat system. I could go on about the wall of text new players are met with.

    After finnishing reading more stuff about this minor obscure detail in combat, I get to the actual thing... It's worse then Skyrims system. Extremely clunky, free-targeting-city unless you choose one specific target... which somehow always ends up in the back ranks so you might as well retarget, and suddenly, that target is in the back ranks... oh my lord. At this point I'm about ready to give up, Heavily discouraged by what feels like The Shakespere Collection in text that has to be read and understood, and utter stupidity in combat systems. But I press on becuase there has to be some light at the end of this tunnel.

    So at an all-time low in-game, I decide to atleast try to get some more exp so I can be at least somewhat useful... Oh wait, let's pause the game becuase during the tutorial we didn't make you read about skill points,
    Just great...

    After actually giving up on reading and just wanting to mess around, I slam my space button and just skip it and decide to figure it out at some point when I really need it.

    I finally just gave up and closed the game.

    So what did I learn.
    - Unless you're willing to come out of the game with a PHD in iLife is Strange stuff, don't open it up.
    - Whatever you try to do, assume you have to read about it in some random book, stupid pop-up or your journal.
    - Combat is insanely clunky
    - Story is very unimmersive and flat. at least the tiny bits I got to "experience" (Seriously, just 2 edge-lrods in some tavern)
    - There are so many systems that are extremely confusing to new players that they don't even bother.
    - Unless you can connect a controller, the game is nearly unplayable with mouse and keyboard.

    Im biased and i dont know what im talking about KEKW    … Expand
  25. localhost
    Jul 22, 2016
    0
    HORRIBLE GAME. Doesn't let you save when you want, saves when you don't want - particularly when you screw up because at some point they suddenly decide that you lose your power to go back in time.
    Clumsy controls, etc, etc. Not worth a penny.
  26. reviewfrom19842
    Aug 30, 2016
    3
    Great game. the 3rd episode is not very good but the rest episodes are really good.

    Episode 1 7/10
    episode 2 8/10
    episode 3 6/10
    episode 4 8/10
    episode 5 9/10
  27. bartcbem
    Aug 10, 2019
    1
    Hipster teenage trope simulator with annoying shoulder camera. I think the creators of this game desperately wanted to make a artsy movie but had to compromise with making a video game. And they failed.
  28. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  29. trmdyl
    Nov 30, 2019
    3
    What a sad piece of stereotypical garbage as if written by a liberal teenage fan fiction geek. Uninteresting zombie of a main character, cliched time-travel stories, Liberal propaganda crap spread by virtual signalling annoying characters, absolutely horrible terrible taste in music, boring trivial gameplay marred by bad fetch puzzles. All in all, a mess I would never go back to and aWhat a sad piece of stereotypical garbage as if written by a liberal teenage fan fiction geek. Uninteresting zombie of a main character, cliched time-travel stories, Liberal propaganda crap spread by virtual signalling annoying characters, absolutely horrible terrible taste in music, boring trivial gameplay marred by bad fetch puzzles. All in all, a mess I would never go back to and a developer I'll most likely avoid from now on.… Expand
  30. Silviucodename4
    Mar 24, 2021
    0
    This game is total garbage how tf was i enjoying this **** years ago, fr this is just bad
  31. Shadowxxx
    Aug 16, 2022
    0
    Worst game ever after tales from borderlands and ugliest **** ever disgusting
  32. Vulf
    Aug 17, 2021
    0
    Cant even play the game for 5 mins without crashing. Tried several workarounds to no avail.
  33. russiangamer
    Nov 5, 2022
    4
    Главная проблема этой игры в сценарии, постановке и геймплее. Не сказал бы, что у игры вообще есть положительные качества. 1. Сценарий вызывает запредельный уровень уныния. К середине третьего эпизода уже хочется лезть на стенку: персонажи скучны, действие развивается очень, очень медленно.
    2. Как раз проблема того, как это срежиссировано относится и к медлительности - абсолютное ощущение    Главная проблема этой игры в сценарии, постановке и геймплее. Не сказал бы, что у игры вообще есть положительные качества. 1. Сценарий вызывает запредельный уровень уныния. К середине третьего эпизода уже хочется лезть на стенку: персонажи скучны, действие развивается очень, очень медленно.
    2. Как раз проблема того, как это срежиссировано относится и к медлительности - абсолютное ощущение того, что ничего не происходит между началом и концом каждого эпизода. Я делаю скидку на бюджет и готов из-за этого смотреть на бесконечные восьмёрки в диалогах, но крепкого фундамента в виде сценария разработчики не смогли обеспечить, отчего все это хочется бросить и возненавидеть.
    3. Геймплей в игре хуже двух аспектов выше вместе взятых. Очень скучно, очень однообразно. Механика с перемоткой времени - вверх вымученности; игрока постоянно берут за шкирку, чтобы он ей пользовался, отчего даже иллюзия вариативности сходит на нет. Хотя эту иллюзию изначально не поддерживали.
    Диалоговое окно имеет минимальный смысл из-за минимальной вариативности. И самое мною ненавистною в этой игры - ходить и рассматривать предметы на локации. Нет, спасибо. ...
    Будь мне 15 лет - это было бы круто, но не в 20. Слишком много огрехов, слишком мало таланта разработчиков. Даже в игры Teltale играть интереснее, думаю. Не говоря уже о quantic dream и прочих предложениях подобного жанра на рынке.
    Никому не советую эту игру.
    4.5/10    … Expand
  34. jaw1986baby
    Mar 20, 2017
    4
    So that last time the game has you climbing the path nearly to the Lighthouse, if the PC gets a Blue Screen you think this has been a very good game. Then you get the last choice and the ending. Worse than ME 3 for an ending so bad it ruined the WHOLE game for me. I am not going to give spoilers so I will not detail my reasons. But I was so, so disappointed.
  35. Don_Perepihon
    Jan 25, 2018
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отвратительно...
    Когда эта игра только вышла, я была несовершеннолетней маленькой 14-летней девочкой, но уже тогда, смотря стримы на twitch ильи maddyson, эта игра казалась мне невыносимо тупой, нудной, затянутой и совершенно бессмысленной. Спустя несколько сранных лет я проспорила самостоятельно пройти и оценить ее, и сделала это...
    Хлоя, блять, одна из самых мерзких персонажей за всю историю игр, сука.Она винила отца за то, что он попал в аварию, умер и оставил её одну, эту малую макс за то, что её родители в 13 лет увезли её в другой город, а подругу за то, что она пропала, хоть потом нашла её расчлененный труп, блять, в земле. И все виноваты в её одиночестве. А потом про нее ещё и делают отдельный приквел , ну, здорово, ебать.
    Графика, геймплей... об этом и говорить не буду, потому что это мультфильм для умственно отсталых. Я в ахуе, как у этого куска калла столько фанаток, орды, сука, маленьких бунтующих девочек допубертатного возраста.

    Почему оценка 1, а не 0? Балл отдам за САМЫЙ ЛУЧШИЙ ЭПИЗОД, ИЗ-ЗА КОТОРОГО И НУЖНО ПРОХОДИТЬ ИГРУ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ И СТАВИТЬ 10 ИЗ 10.... Это было что-то настолько убогое, абсурдное и нелепое, что меня пробивало на смех, что кто-то действительно строчил положительные комментарии к нему.

    Игра действительно по своей сути бесполезная. В конце игры при любом выборе концовки, все твои выборы до идут в пизду. Серьезно. Если ты ебнешь эту суку, ты тупо вернешься в начало игры. Если ты ее спасешь, то город будет уничтожен, и твои поступки тоже никому уже не будут интересны.

    Я действительно не понимаю, почему я оцениваю эту игру так высоко, в целый 1 балл, но я ее все-таки прошла, все 5 эпизодов, и пройду приквел, поэтому чисто 0 не могу позволить себе влепить ей.    … Expand
  36. vlad2009
    Feb 8, 2019
    0
    нуишто каке продсупить калстсены какет играь нета игрый тоько сцтена канн игрроь за мужека я нехачуиграть заб уба уне
  37. MaxmilianKohler
    Oct 19, 2019
    3
    Tedious, uninteresting melodramatic teenage trash.

    There is a low character requirement here.
  38. YEECEE
    Dec 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It may be the most inflated overrated game I have ever seen in my life (with outlast 2) the story is bad
    game-play is boring play with time mechanics is an adolescent story used in ridiculous empty work makes the game unattractive and our choices have no effect on the end of the game, if you have a finale based on either Chloe or saving the city then why . Graphics and musics good But it's a bad game with everything else . İ don't know metro exodus and infamous second son is worse grades then life is strange .    … Expand
  39. KapralDominik
    Aug 3, 2022
    4
    Подростковая драмка, не имеющая никакой ценности вне хайпа своего времени. История в общем-то цепляет, но оглядываясь назад на все это, вы будете явно не в восторге через какое море воды вам пришлось пройти при этом. Хорошая атмосфера орегонского захолустного городка, отменный саунд и притягательные главные героини безусловно добавляют игре баллов, но смотреть все эти сопли на протяженииПодростковая драмка, не имеющая никакой ценности вне хайпа своего времени. История в общем-то цепляет, но оглядываясь назад на все это, вы будете явно не в восторге через какое море воды вам пришлось пройти при этом. Хорошая атмосфера орегонского захолустного городка, отменный саунд и притягательные главные героини безусловно добавляют игре баллов, но смотреть все эти сопли на протяжении 5-ти эпизодов при том что все выборы-то *спойлер* под конец ничего не решают несколько мелочно и неуважительно по отношению к своему времени. Оценка:4.… Expand
  40. TencoSan
    Sep 11, 2020
    1
    This game is sucks, just because I created an account to write this.
    story and finale so "strange" , waste of time
    - No matter what you decide in the game, nothing changes in the final as expected - The story is unreasonable these days video game writers must be just looking at money and coffee - chloe is like a toy in the story , come on but she is max's best friend - ... what the    This game is sucks, just because I created an account to write this.
    story and finale so "strange" , waste of time
    - No matter what you decide in the game, nothing changes in the final as expected
    - The story is unreasonable these days video game writers must be just looking at money and coffee
    - chloe is like a toy in the story , come on but she is max's best friend
    - ...
    what the story brought you, butterfly effect ?, murphy law ? ... -    … Expand
  41. Narutoislink
    Oct 5, 2020
    2
    who sat down and said this game is good all these characters are nun but annoying asshats
  42. Micsiz
    Apr 19, 2021
    3
    Bu oyun 8.6 metacritic puanı nası aldı aq. İnteraktif Film olarak başarısız, oyun içi seçimler hiç bi siki etkilemiyor, sadece daha fazla diyalog dinliyorsunuz. Bazı 'bulmaca' sayılan görevler aşırı kanser. Biz ne senaryolar, ne dramalar görmüşken, hele hele Türkiye'de yaşıyorken bunun hikayesine 'etkileyici' diyen bir kitle var. Eminim o kitle Twilight'ı ve Batman Versus SupermanBu oyun 8.6 metacritic puanı nası aldı aq. İnteraktif Film olarak başarısız, oyun içi seçimler hiç bi siki etkilemiyor, sadece daha fazla diyalog dinliyorsunuz. Bazı 'bulmaca' sayılan görevler aşırı kanser. Biz ne senaryolar, ne dramalar görmüşken, hele hele Türkiye'de yaşıyorken bunun hikayesine 'etkileyici' diyen bir kitle var. Eminim o kitle Twilight'ı ve Batman Versus Superman filmlerini de sevmişlerdir. Oyunun mekanikleri kötü değil. Olması gerektiği kadar güzel. Ama koca oyun hikayeden ibaret olduğunu ve hikaye denen şeye sahip olmadığını var sayarsak, bu oyun olmamış. Biraz da 'zamanı geri sarma' mekaniğini nasıl heba ettikleri hakkında yazmak isterdim ama benşm canım pek kıymetli ve asil parmaklarım yorulmuş mnfjdnfj.… Expand
  43. Ginchan
    Apr 18, 2021
    0
    Nothing to say more, it's masterpiece. Thank you so much DONTNOD Entertainment and Square Enix for bringing this masterpiece for us, really thank you!
  44. Rozku
    Jul 10, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SPOILER ALERT: This **** is trash. If I had the opportunity to minimize my lifespan to an hour in exchange for the ability to eradicate this games existence and rewind its memories out of the hippocampus’s part of the brain in past players so that no one else ever has to experience it; I’d use that last hour of my life writing this review. If you never play this game or have no recollection of its experiences consider my mission complete.… Expand
  45. defenz
    Aug 9, 2021
    3
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  46. pokeaatrox
    Aug 8, 2023
    0
    Another narrative game or with a lot of dialogue / cinematic but whose available dubbing is only English.

    The other communities such as the French, Germans, Russians, etc... are neglected.

    My money will be better at other studios.
  47. hydraulicsk
    Jan 4, 2023
    0
    Jesus christ so this game was $20 on release in 2015 and 8 years later the only version you can buy is $40? I'd love to play it but hate giving in to **** anti consumer practices like that

Awards & Rankings

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#32 Best PC Game of 2015
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#19 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Softpedia
    Jan 28, 2016
    85
    Life Is Strange is an imperfect video game and the actual mechanics of playing it, including the time rewind, can become annoying of frustrating, especially when the development team tries to borrow from another genre. But the game makes it easy to create a connection with Max and to care about her choices and trials, a rare feat, and that means any fan of narrative-driven experiences should try it out to see how he deals with the feelings of the protagonist and the impact they have on Arcadia Bay.
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  2. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    80
    Life is Strange is flawed, but this paranormal coming-of-age story is nevertheless refreshing proof that small stakes can still feel important, given strong characters.
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  3. IGN Spain
    Jan 18, 2016
    86
    Life is Strange is a brilliant concept that you will love if you forget prejudices.
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