Life is Strange 2
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 16.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB, 40 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
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
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange - Episode 1 (free, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Tell Me Why (free, scores 61).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 583 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
It is still busy. 153 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
46% start to 5% 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
153 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
replaying this years after 100%ing it feels like coming back to an old friend. still just as beautiful, emotional and bittersweet as I remember. some games really do stay with you. ❤️
Best game ever made, I can't get enough of this ever. They both deserved so so so much better.
Such a good story, a lot emotions and wild moments. For me, Way better than the original LiS but still play the first as theres things that relate ;) I love this game and its one to replay that's for sure.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Life is Strange 2 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/532210/life-is-strange-2The 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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