Life is Strange - Episode 1
BANGER · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Detroit: Become Human ($7.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Before the Storm ($16.99, scores 57).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 5,026 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 175,931 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
It is still busy. 294 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
68% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
294 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Life is Strange - Episode 1 scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319630/life-is-strange-episode-1The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10.
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