Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $16.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.82.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.70/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 37,970
- Critics
- 77 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.82 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10h
- To 100%
- 13h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 38 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.39 November 2019
- Sale every
- 29d last May 2021
Players and genre
- Online
- 19 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 12% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 19% 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
38 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.82. The record reaches that level 30 times.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange - Episode 1 (free, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Double Exposure ($49.99, scores 15).
More about Life is Strange: Before the Storm
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,154 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 1984 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is a deeply emotional prequel that takes one of the original game's most memorable characters and finally gives us the opportunity to experience the world through her eyes. This time, we play as Chloe Price three years before the events of Life Is Strange. There are no time-rewinding powers and no Max Caulfield standing beside her. Instead, Before the Storm focuses on Chloe's life...
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About the game
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 250 or NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650, 14 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Life is Strange: Before the Storm scores 75/100 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/554620/life-is-strange-before-the-stormReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.