Life is Strange - Episode 1
BANGER · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 176,797
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 60
Players and genre
- Online
- 515 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Life is Strange: Before the Storm ($16.99, scores 75) and Life is Strange 2 (free, scores 73), are both worse buys on this math.
It is still busy. 515 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 16:45 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.
More about Life is Strange - Episode 1
Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 5,032 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 176,797 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life is Strange - Episode 1 scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319630/life-is-strange-episode-1Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.