Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 23, 2023

  this game literally changed my life forever dude. i went through actual lorebook type character development because of this game. every time i saw a butterfly i lost my fucking mind and thought it was a sign. i literally got it in my head that if i did something and something else consequently happened it was my fault. i had to live with the fact that i couldn't undo anything. i arguably went fucking insane. literally bonkers. as i aged i realized i can't undo things and i do just have to accept it and it's genuinely not that fucking deep dude anyway awesome game! would recommend! do not play in a bad state of mind dude DO NOT DO THAT DO NOT DO THAT PLEASE I'M WARNING YOU I'M BEGGING YOU
• jhef

  Aug 23, 2023

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• gamedeal user

  Mar 5, 2015

  It's strange how this will be the first review I ever write for a game. I always thought it would be written for a game like Fallout, Elderscrolls or some huge open world survival horror. And yet it's this little piece of art that has me aching to write something, if only for a minute. When I had finished this, a few minutes ago, I couldn't believe that they only charge a pittence for it. I thought to myself that if people can charge you 70 euro for games that are poorly executed and badly made from start to finish, then this game should have a much higher pricetag. It wasn't before looking up and seeing that I just finished the first episode in a mere three hours that I understood their reasoning. I feel, however, obliged to tell you all that the three hours spent in this game were worth more to me than the hundreads of hours I've spent in most other games combined. Not because the story was awsome, or the graphics made me gape in awe, but rather that every single aspect of the game in combination managed to grip me and pull me in so that time became temporarily meaningless. Imagine if games held this standard. Imagine if your favorite action, your favorite adventure game or even your favorite driver had this kind of execution. You can tell a good story in a bad way, and you can tell a bad story in a good way. The story in this game might not be the most interesting story you've ever heard, but it's good, and in the execution of it you are drawn in, captured by it, moved by it. Most adventure games will entertain, they'll give you some ups and downs along the way, but ultimately they will feel like games. I've never felt so fulfilled after "playing a game" as I did today. Original, beautiful and masterfully executed. I can't wait for the next episode.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 20, 2015

  I wish I could rewind and play this game for the first time again.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 27, 2016

  This game is a moral self-torture simulator... Steps for successfully experiencing LiS: 1. Buy it. 2. Begin to play it. 3. Make poor choices. 4. Alter poor choices. 5. Realise new choices are worse. 6. Eventually stumble to the end feeling like you've almost held it together. 7. Make monumentally poor choice. 8. Open the bottle of Jack Daniels you keep by your desk. 9. Begin drunken reflection on reality. 10. Remember why you failed Philosophy. 11. Drink some more. 12. Ponder if this game has set an impossible bar for videogame storytelling. 13. Conclude it has. 14. Decide to write negative review of game because it made you feel sad. 15. Change it to positive BECAUSE it managed to make you feel sad. 16. Begin the slightly hollow search for something that can offer a similar experience.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 7, 2018

  I thought this game was overhyped. It's not. I thought I wasn't it's target audience / demographic. I loved it. I thought I wouldn't get involved with the characters. I did. I thought I wouldn't care about the choices. I agonized. I thought I could breeze right throught it. I talked to everybody I could, exploring all options. I thought I could play it and move on. It stuck with me. I thought I wouldn't cry. I couldn't help it. I thought it was a game. It's so much more. This was incredible.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 2, 2019

  Life is Strange is one of the episodic series in the short history of the genre. The game has a great story, skillfully takes on serious issues and has a really good soundtrack. What's more - there is at least as much gameplay as there is simple viewing, and the entire game can take more than a dozen hours to finish. There are some minor flaws here and there but they won't overshadow the fact that this is one of the best stories on Steam.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 27, 2015

  Life is Strange isn't hard, yet it hits you hard. Life is Strange isn't challenging, yet it shows daily challenges. Life is Strange isn't long, yet its impact lasts long. Life is Strange isn't a puzzle, yet it leaves you puzzled. Life is Strange isn't giving questions, yet it offers answers. Life is Strange isn't replayable, yet finds in the replay its core. Life is Strange isn't real, yet it feels so. Life is Strange isn't about relationship, friensdhip, love, hate, light or darkness. It's about the most underestimated gift: life. I am unable to call it "game" as it would lose all the artistic veil surrounding Arcadia Bay. Art is something you perceive, it is something that comes out of the blue without a reason or a purpose. Art is something you can perceive in every step Max takes, and this is how I would label Life is Strange: art. Dontnod has made a terrific job and gives us lessons that we can easily detatch from this title and apply it in our everyday life. All the serious themes covered in such a little time amount made me understand the reason why the developers have opened a support group for those who felt really affected by some of them. And perhaps the core of this experience is simple and complicated at the same time: Life is hard, life is challenging, life is short, life is puzzling, life is uncertain, life is one only, life is strange. But life..is life.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 25, 2017

  - Pretty Graphics - An amazing story - Conditions that can be selected - A memorable (ost) - The game I want to play again..
• gamedeal user

  Nov 24, 2016

  Nominated for 'I'm not crying, there's something in my eye' award.