Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Steam Deck Playable

Deck Nine · Story Rich · Aug 31, 2017

Yes, worth buying.

At $16.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

93%
Very Positive
38k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 194 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 47 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 40 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 38k player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
60% of themes are praise20% are divided20% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
What they make up for in the overall gameplay - not going back to the same places like 5 times, no needing to memorize anything to advance the story, having the episodes last longer with better pacing - it sorely lacks in dialogue, urgency of the plot, and branching outcomes.
194 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The original had an awesome soundtrack, right?
47 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The game's sketchy art style from LiS is fully respected in this prequel as well, and on a good side the game ran smoothly without troubles or glitches of sort.
40 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Story and characters194 reviews
Audio47 reviews
Graphics40 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay38 reviews
82%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs8 reviews
88%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 7 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Full price

Currently $16.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $16.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
93%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
34
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.