Life Is Strange 2
Life Is Strange 2 is an episodic adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Players control Sean Diaz, a teenager on the run with his younger brother Daniel after a tragic incident forces them to…
Life Is Strange 2 is an adventure developed by DON'T NOD, released 26 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It is free to play. The main story takes about 16.3 hrs to finish.
What Life Is Strange 2 is
Life Is Strange 2 is an adventure game developed by DON'T NOD and released in 2018. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sean Diaz is a sixteen-year-old Mexican-American living in Seattle with his younger brother Daniel and their father Esteban. When a confrontation with a neighbor escalates and a police officer fatally shoots Esteban, a sudden supernatural explosion occurs, triggered by Daniel's latent telekinetic abilities. Sean flees the scene with Daniel, and the two become fugitives, setting out on a journey south toward their father's hometown in Mexico. As they travel along the West Coast, Sean takes on the role of surrogate parent, guiding Daniel while struggling to keep them both safe and fed. Daniel's powers grow stronger, and Sean must decide how to teach his brother to use them responsibly. The…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Life is Strange series
Life Is Strange 2 is the eighth of 18 entries we hold in the Life is Strange series. The next entry was Life is Strange: True Colors - Ultimate Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 82 is 3 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Life is Strange: True Colors at 84.
How it was received
Life Is Strange 2 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 332 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz), 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 40GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Life Is Strange 2 launched on 26 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Life Is Strange 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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