- Publisher: Square Enix
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2026
- Also On: PC, Xbox Series X
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Mar 31, 2026Playing out and reading like incredibly poor fan fiction, Life is Strange: Reunion is a return to Max and Chloe’s roots that fundamentally misunderstands the series’ themes, rules and strengths. Less of a triumphant one last hurrah and more of a reanimating of a dead, soulless corpse, it’s an incredibly missable and disappointing regression in storytelling for the franchise that doesn’t trust its audience’s intelligence. The mystery fizzles with plot holes and limp writing, while the second ill-advised jaunt of Max and Chloe doesn’t offer anything substantive or better than its predecessor, instead throwing as much limp nostalgia baiting as it can at a wall, hoping something will stick. It doesn’t matter how much Square Enix and Deck Nine try to embalm the Life is Strange (and Max and Chloe) name; it’s still a dead, hollow husk that was better off left in the ground.
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Apr 1, 2026Reunion has all the trappings of a “Fix Fic” written by a disgruntled fan who desperately wanted some third option at the end of Life Is Strange a decade ago and was miffed that Don’t Nod denied it to them.
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Mar 31, 2026While the earlier moments in Life is Strange didn’t significantly advance the plot, they helped us connect more with individual characters. Even if those characters weren’t as central as others, it made a difference to you, the player. The most exciting thing Max can do with her powers in Reunion is rewind repeatedly until she gets the right answer. Groundbreaking. This is supposed to be a ‘your actions have consequences’ franchise, not the ‘the only actions that matter are the ones that make the loudest fans the happiest’ franchise. I’m not naive; I know game development is a business, but the lack of integrity from Deck Nine with Reunion is so incredibly shocking that it would be an insult to call this poor fanfiction.