Life is Strange: True Colors
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$17.9970% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.88/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 16,926
- Genre rank
- Top 17% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $17.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.2h
- To 100%
- 13.1h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 40 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $17.99 November 2023
- Sale every
- 48d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 31 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 14% 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
It has been discounted 40 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered ($39.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Double Exposure ($49.99, scores 15).
More about Life is Strange: True Colors
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 373 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 20 days ago.
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: True Colors is the ultimate comfy, cozy game. As someone who considers themselves deeply empathetic, I really connected with Alex Chen, her ability to visually sense and absorb other people's emotions felt surprisingly relatable to me. The D&D-style LARP chapter was easily the highlight of the game (it actually made me want to try LARPing in real life), and the twist with Jed totally caught me off...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I genuinely don't understand why a lot of people hate on this game. For one, it's visually stunning. Two, they have some of the characters from Life is Strange 1, and I love that. Along with that, the main character, Alex Chen, is phenomenal. You can just see the emotional intelligence through her and feel so much empathy. I love this game because it helps you see emotions that you don't always see from everyone and...
Life is, in fact, not strange in this game. It is a very, very normal life, and a tad boring. When I tell you how much it hurts me not to recommend a game from this series, you have to believe me (it's basically my whole personality). Life Is Strange: True Colors is not a bad game, so let's start there. The characters are easy to like; playing as people my age, instead of teenagers, feels fresh - a nice change, I'd...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB / GeForce GTX 750Ti, 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life is Strange: True Colors scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/936790/life-is-strange-true-colorsReviews 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 Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.