Life Is Strange – you’ve nothing to lose in trying it now

If you haven’t played Dontnod’s award-wining adventure yet then you’ve got no excuse now, because it’s free on consoles and PC.

Life Is Strange was one of our favourite games of last year, beating Telltale at their own game and creating one of the best, and most interactive, story-based games of recent years.

Although it’s now available as a boxed set it was originally sold as five episodes, that you could either buy separately or via a season pass. Except now the first one, entitled Chrysalis, is now free. Or at least it will be from tomorrow.



The first episode introduces you to photography student Max Caulfield, who discovers she has the ability to rewind and change time. She and her estranged friend Chloe then become embroiled in both conspiracy at their college and some very Donnie Dark-esque supernatural goings on.


You can find out more details at the official website, but we actually recently spoke to developers Dontnod and will have a full interview with them up next week.

‘A lot of people have played the game and we think now, that giving people the opportunity to play the two or three hours of Episode 1 for free will be a nice experience’, Dontnod’s Michel Koch told us.

‘So maybe people that still had doubts about the game will have the opportunity to try it and if they like it, buy the rest of the season. So for us it’s exactly what we want, for as many people as possible to play the game.’

Life Is Strange: Episode 1 – what will you do about Chloe?

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