Life is Strange 2
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 41,493
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Recent reviews trending up: 96% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.1h
- To 100%
- 20h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 46
Players and genre
- Online
- 74 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
46% start to 5% 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 puts it in the top 5 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: Before the Storm ($16.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Tell Me Why (free, scores 61).
Its player count is falling. 156 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 35 days, 74 at the last one, on Nov 5, 07:45 UTC.
More about Life is Strange 2
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 96 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 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.
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
What players say
I found myself enjoying this game more than the first one. Sean and Daniel go through so much throughout the story, and you end up caring about their relationship. Even with the road-trip format, the short time the brothers have to connect with new characters is crafted effectively. Once the episode is over, you think about how their paths could cross in the future. Visually and gameplay-wise, it's an improvement...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Life is Strange 2 offers a rather different formula. It is no longer a story about rewinding time to save a best friend as seen in the first game but rather a tale of survival and sacrifice involving two brothers, Sean and Daniel. The choices made not only impact the storyline but also gradually teach Daniel the difference between right and wrong. The dynamic relationship between Sean and Daniel feels incredibly...
One of the worst games I've ever played. Took us 4 months to get through this cringe slog fest of a game (barely a game) and I'm so happy it's over.
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life is Strange 2 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/532210/life-is-strange-2Reviews 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.