Life is Strange: Before the Storm
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…
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is an adventure developed by Deck Nine, released 31 August 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android and iOS. The main story takes about 11.6 hrs to finish.
What Life is Strange: Before the Storm is
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is an adventure game developed by Deck Nine and released in 2017. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 34 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Life is Strange series
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is the third of 18 entries we hold in the Life is Strange series. It arrived 2 years after Life Is Strange: Limited Edition. The next entry was Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Vinyl Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 77 is 2 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Life is Strange: True Colors at 84.
How it was received
Life is Strange: Before the Storm holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 508 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.6 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), 3 GB RAM and AMD Radeon R7 250 or NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 14GB. 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: Before the Storm launched on 31 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Life is Strange: Before the Storm yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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