Life is Strange - Episode 1
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Life is Strange - Episode 1 is a story rich, choices matter and great soundtrack game
developed by DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral interactive (Mac) and Feral Interactive (Linux)
and published by Feral interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux) and Square Enix.
Released on January 29th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 167,817 reviews of which 161,404 were positive and 6,413 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍
The game is free to play on Steam.
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Requirements
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Windows
- 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
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.11
- Processor: 1.8GHz Intel or greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512Mb AMD 4850, 512Mb Nvidia GT130, Intel HD4000 (See Notes for more details)
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Additional Notes: The game is supported on the following Macs. To check your Mac model and when it was released, select About This Mac from the Apple menu on your menu bar.
- * All MacBook Airs released since Mid 2012 (1)
- * All 13” MacBook Pros released since Mid 2012 (1)
- * All 15” & 17" MacBook Pros released since Mid 2010 with a 512Mb graphics card or better
- * All Mac Minis released since Late 2012 (1)
- * All iMacs released since Early 2009 with a 512Mb graphics card or better
- * All Mac Pros released since early 2009
- (1) HD4000 & HD5000 cards require at least 8GB of System Memory
- * All MacBooks released since Early 2016
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 / SteamOS 2.0
- Processor: Intel i3 or AMD FX6300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA 640 (1GB), AMD R9 270, Intel Iris Pro 6200 or better
- Storage: 16 GB available space
- Additional Notes: NVIDIA GPU's require Driver version 367.27 (tested). AMD and Intel GPU's require MESA 11.2 (tested). AMD GPUs are not supported on SteamOS
Reviews
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I was never planning on playing this game until a random afternoon on November 19th of 2024. The only exposure I had to this game is knowing relatives or friends having played this game. Upon entering I knew absolutely nothing about it, and expected nothing. Nonetheless I was immediately blown away by the art style in the very first minutes of the game. I was driven away by the delicate and vulnerable yet exciting feeling of playing as Max who is ironically beginning a new future for her photography career at the highschool in the hometown she's returning to. The environment makes you feel like the new kid at a school and has you eager to explore what your new school and personal life has to offer and catch up on everything you missed in that small little town. The moments where you establish where you stand with everyone and vice versa is something you'll keep to yourself and make personal the entire game. Reuniting with your childhood bestfriend is like connecting with your other half that you can't go without throughout the entire game. Life is Strange is one of the few games that has actually made me feel emotion and made me show interest in this game. I was easily able to title this my favorite game of all time just shortly after playing it. 10/10.
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This was hard to play, and even harder to write. My brother played this shortly before he passed and it was his favorite game. I was afraid to play, and having to confront the decisions you make and their consequences made this extremely hard to get through. But it has helped me understand both the main characters struggle but my struggle as well as well as my wishes to go back and 'change things'. Not many games can boast changing a players life, but this has certainly changed mine. Thank you for making this, and thank you for helping me process my own losses in life.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑Very good ☐Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ Difficulty }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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"This Action Will Have Consequences" I don't know where to begin... After finishing it like 3 times now there's simply no game that comes close to what this game has to offer in terms of choices matter. This game broke(Good type) the industry a decade ago (take note , this game was released in 2015) and that's coming from me, a Mass Effect fan. The most critically acclaimed game (going 1v1 The Witcher 3), changed my life in seeing/viewing life. There's so much emotion put in this game , you are literally invested in all the characters and everything is written so fucking good .Well done DONTNOD, you deserve every praise. From music to character development, this game has everything. Action and exploration need I say more...actually , yes there's , lot of sadness so be sure you are as dead as me inside(I finished it 3 times). It's really Joeover for the gaming industry isn't? WE ARE NOT SEEING GAMES LIKE THIS ANYMORE. The gaming industry has gone full fucking WOKE and CORPORATE GREED. Fortunate for us DONTNOD is still making games. I'm looking forward to what DONTNOD has to offer as they just released the trailer for their new LIS inspired game, called Lost Records. I will be continuing to support them. Please give this beautiful franchise a go, as not a lot people like this type of games. You will not regret it. Trust me. Also, you do not have to play the remastered versions as they only have better emotions a.k.a visuals and lighting, rather stick with the original as the nostalgia for coming back to it will be worth it ,but I'm aware that buying the remastered versions is a lot cheaper in some countries. Other than that, its really all up to you,but I'd stick to the original. 20/10 Bae over Bay, Always Shaka Brah.
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I SWEAR TO GOD, I FREAKING CRIED LIKE A BABY! And it's a freaking ugly cries T_T I just love everything about this game. The story, the graphic, and the characters development especially.. Such a masterpiece. 10/10. Leaves u aching for days.
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Online players
304
Developer
DONTNOD Entertainment,
Feral interactive (Mac),
Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
Feral interactive (Mac),
Feral Interactive (Linux),
Square Enix
Release
29 Jan 2015
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