Life is Strange - Episode 1 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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 169,201 reviews of which 162,769 were positive and 6,432 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Life is Strange - Episode 1 into these genres:

Story Rich Choices Matter Great Soundtrack Female Protagonist Time Travel Atmospheric Episodic Singleplayer Adventure Time Manipulation Multiple Endings Mystery Third Person Point & Click Indie Walking Simulator Casual Action LGBTQ+ Memes

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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
——— The following Macs are capable of running the game but do not consistently meet the standards required for official support.
- * All MacBooks released since Early 2016
Please note for your computer to meet the minimum requirements it must match or better all elements of the listed spec. For more detailed specifications check the Feral website.

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

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Feb. 2026

I started playing this game when I was a senior in high school, but never finished it. I recently revisited it as a senior in university and finally did so, cried at the ending, and it's on my favourites list now.

Dec. 2025

Life is Strange is quite a perfect game. It will radicalize you, everyone, into the ideals of love, kindness, empathy, friendship, redemption and art. I should talk about how of an emotional experience it was, Soundtrack was awesome. !! Life is Strange is a masterpiece. A work of art. It will teach you a lesson - infact quite many of them. It will expose different kinds of people and worlds to you. It’ll be ”hella” great experience. Thank you. And to everyone in this world, peace and love. Remember: ”Live and help to live.” Same is true with loving.

Dec. 2025

The ORIGINAL groundbreaking emotional storytelling masterpiece, I honestly do recommend playing this over the Remaster version since despite having improved faces and eyes due to mocapped performances integrated into the game, most other things aren't as good as in this original version. Life is Strange and the characters in it mean so much to me and I really urge everyone to give this game a fair shot, it's a masterful narrative driven adventure for fans of young adult style content, fans of stuff like Twin Peaks and fans of choice based games like TellTale or Dispatch. Life is Strange will likely forever remain as my personal favorite game narrative of all time.

Sept. 2025

YES PLAY THIS GAME! i was not expecting that plot twist in episode 4, it's worth the money if you enjoy playing games where you're able to make your own choices. Quite long but it's worth it

May 2025

I always wanted to play Life is Strange since the release of it. After 10 years, I finally had the chance of playing it. Life is Strange is a great game with an amazing story along with a very powerful message and well-written characters, but is that really it? Not for me. This game brought me back in time (not literally), but it did bring me back when life was not that strange, rather simple yet joyful. It gave me back the excitement I pretty much lost in the last recent years of playing videogames and seeing what new content they had to offer, exactly what The Walking Dead by Telltale did back in the day. We used to have to wait for months (which a lot of people, including me, grew up with their games for pretty much half of our lifetime). The art style and music helped recreate the nostalgic feeling that was once given before, getting their inspiration from Telltale studio, while still keeping that unique touch it had (really loved the acoustic guitars). I am so glad I played Life is Strange right at this time of my life, since I feel like it was the best moment I've ever had of doing so. Now here I am, 10 years later, really thanking you DONTNOD for giving me back the enthusiasm of playing videogames, I will cherish this game forever.

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Life is Strange - Episode 1 is free to play on Steam.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 received 162,769 positive votes out of a total of 169,201 achieving an impressive rating of 9.50.

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Life is Strange - Episode 1 was developed by DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral interactive (Mac) and Feral Interactive (Linux) and published by Feral interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux) and Square Enix.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Life is Strange - Episode 1. Explore additional content available for Life is Strange - Episode 1 on Steam.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 supports Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet and Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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405

Developer

DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)

Publisher

Feral interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux), Square Enix

Release 29 Jan 2015

Platforms

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