Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Life is Strange: Reunion
Developer Deck Nine Games
Life Is Strange: Reunion is a 2026 adventure game in the Life Is Strange series, developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix. It serves as a sequel to Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (2024) and follows the return of Chloe Price, who reunites with Max Caulfield at Caledon University. Chloe seeks help coping with memories of an alternate life and death she did not experience, as a destructive inferno… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
486 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
257 positive · 70 negative
95% range 74–83%
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| Steam reviews | 257 | 70 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 31 | 5 | 107 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,752 of 3,118 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
78% recommend · 215 yes, 62 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 277 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (5,170 of 5,794 positive).
Players widely praise the emotional return of Max and Chloe, calling it a satisfying and heartfelt sequel. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game is a significant improvement over Double Exposure, with a more engaging story. [4][5][6] Some players criticize the game as excessive fan service that undermines the narrative and character development. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [8]
If you believe that all Life Is Strange can and should be about is Max dating Chloe, then this game is for you. Under any and every other circumstance, avoid this game at all cost. Sadly, I couldn´t stop rolling my eyes the further I progressed in the story. A promising and intriguing start fell hard on its face. Every character and conflict only serves as a prop or backdrop for Pricefield shipping. Max is back to …
- [1]
Edit: Still trying to finish writing the review. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3700855625 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished with the best ending in 14 hours. A long review will be ready in 3 days. FYI: LIS > LIS: Reunion > LIS: BTS > LIS 2 = LIS: DE > LIS: TC They really cooked with this one… I’m so glad I preordered, they didn’t disappoint.
- [2]
I finished Life is Strange: Reunion in about 10 hours, just one day after release, and as someone who has played the whole series from the very beginning, including the DLCs, this game hit me right in the heart. Seeing Max and Chloe again, especially since they’ve always been my favorites, was honestly priceless. I literally finished the game 5 minutes ago, and all I can think is: I need more. Just like I did with …
- [20]
I hated DE. I still hate DE. I hate it with a passion.....but I loved this game. I haven't enjoyed A LIS game so much since the original. I am absolutely shocked at how well done this game was compared the the previous. I went into this game thinking it was gonna be another dud of a story with cute Pricefield moments mixed in, but my expectations were blown out of the water. The story is absolutely amazing from top …
- [3]
I am a 30 years old tattooed guy who fell in love with first Life is Strange game years ago that basically saved my life during one of my hardest times in my life. Since then I played all LiS games multiple times, I love these games, but not all of them made me emotional like the first game did. But this one did. Playing this game felt like playing first Life is Strange game for the first time. I felt joy, I …
Summarised from 34 of the 390 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Life is Strange: Reunion talk about emotional and satisfying return for Max and Chloe; those who didn't talk about feels like excessive fan service. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Life Is Strange: Reunion received "mixed or average" reviews for the Windows and PlayStation 5 versions while the Xbox Series X version received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 68% of critics. Reviewers generally praised the game for reuniting Max and Chloe, its emotional tone, and aspects of its mystery and presentation, while criticism commonly focused on uneven storytelling, limited consequences for player choices, underdeveloped supporting characters, simple gameplay, and technical issues. In CG Magazine, Neil Bolt treated Reunion as a…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 486 · most liked firstEdit: Still trying to finish writing the review. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3700855625 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished with the best ending in 14 hours. A long review will be ready in 3 days. FYI: LIS > LIS: Reunion > LIS: BTS > LIS 2 = LIS: DE > LIS: TC They really cooked with this one… I’m so glad I preordered, they didn’t disappoint.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →joining in the trend! if you fw any of these games, you are amazing ▹ Pokemon ▹ Zelda ▹ The Walking Dead Game ▹ The Last of Us ▹ Undertale ▹ Life is Strange ▹ Baldurs Gate 3 ▹ Danganronpa ▹ Wuthering Waves ▹ Genshin Impact ▹ Skyrim ▹ Elden Ring ▹ Indie's and a bunch more~
neutral · AI labelView post →Max and Chloe were the heart of the first game. They were not supposed to become the franchise’s permanent life support system. If Reunion is truly the end of their arc, fine. But if this series keeps running back to them again and again, then it is not honoring the original story anymore. It is just feeding on it. I didn’t play every entry, so I’m not judging all of them equally. I’m judging the pattern. Whenever this series wants easy emotional investment, it runs back to Max and Chloe…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some game franchises I love: -Assassin’s Creed -Baldur’s Gate -Mass Effect -Dragon Age -Life is Strange -The Witcher -Cyberpunk
neutral · AI labelView post →If you believe that all Life Is Strange can and should be about is Max dating Chloe, then this game is for you. Under any and every other circumstance, avoid this game at all cost. Sadly, I couldn´t stop rolling my eyes the further I progressed in the story. A promising and intriguing start fell hard on its face. Every character and conflict only serves as a prop or backdrop for Pricefield shipping. Max is back to only existing in the vacuum of yearning and longing for Chloe. She is not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adventure game pitch: Max & Max. Max Caulfield from Life Is Strange teams up with Max, everyone's favorite hyperkinetic rabbity thing from Sam & Max.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is what creative bankruptcy looks like. Reunion's central "mystery" is comically uninteresting and resolved in the most pathetic of whimpers imaginable. All the characters that were introduced in the previous game were either completely flattened, sidelined, or in the most egregious of cases STRAIGHT UP REMOVED! Hope you didn't wanna know what that cliffhanger in DE was about. Or wanted any of the character arcs to be continued in any way whatsoever. But hey, none of that matters because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why is the construction game trailer filmed like a Life is Strange trailer
neutral · AI labelView post →It's official, I have my first credit for accessibility consulting on a major video game. That's me in the Life is Strange: Double Exposure credits!
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is only barely recommendable to those who have already suffered through the misfortune of playing Life is Strange: Double Exposure, which is, sadly, required reading for Life is Strange: Reunion. Reunion is a desperate clean-up job that exists only to try and fix Double Exposure's wrongs and, when it can't, it just memory holes them entirely. Take Safi, for example. Whether you supported her or not in Double Exposure (supposedly that game’s ultimate choice) turns out to be entirely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You Guys Loved Chloe So Much, So We Decided to Return Her: The Game (Also an apology tour because Double Exposure was hated in nation...) It's a complete oxymoron compared to what the 2015 game accomplished. I can't tell if it's because the story underwent several rewrites or if they felt the pressure of giving closure to Chloe and Max and simply choose the most common denominators for a happy fanbase. Probably a mixture of both. The gameplay has lost a step from Double Exposure. Hell, it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No amount of sapphic marketing and nostalgia exploitation is going to make up for lazy and frankly sh!t writing so yeah, fu❤ck Deck Nine.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Life Is Strange Double Exposure is a gorgeous game.
positive · AI labelView post →No Life is Strange game will ever capture the lightning-in-a-bottle magic of the original, but if you enjoy the deep narrative, engaging mystery, fun characters, and slow exploration, you'll find this game as enjoyable as the others. For me, this one seems more polished and far more engaging than Double Exposure. Ignore the melodramatic whiners who compulsively seek attention by stirring up pointless drama. This game is great. Max and Chloe are awesome. Play it if that's your thing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Worst Life is Strange Game: A Complete Betrayal of the Original Executive Summary: The soundtrack is good, but that is where the praise ends. This is unequivocally the worst Life is Strange game to date. By dragging Max and Chloe back into the spotlight, the developers haven't just made a bad sequel; they have retroactively ruined the impact of the original masterpiece. It is a masterclass in terrible writing, zero-stakes decision-making, and soulless corporate design. The "Chloe Canon"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey! Just a friendly reminder that if you liked what we created with Max and Chloe and Sean and Daniel in #lifeisstrange 1 and 2 you will love Swann, Nora, Autumn and Kat in #LostRecords, play it! It’s celebrating its first birthday soon!
neutral · AI labelView post →PS+ Extra lineup for June: blog.playstation.com/2026/06/10/p... -Final Fantasy XVI -Sonic X Shadow Generations -Kingdom Come: Deliverance -Life is Strange: Double Exposure -Farming Simulator 25 -Blades of Fire -Black Desert PS+ Premium -Gitaroo Man (this game is great btw)
neutral · AI labelView post →First trailer for 'Life is Strange Reunion' 🎮 Max and Chloe are co-leads in the game Releasing March 26
neutral · AI labelView post →Manifesting this in the new Life is Strange game
neutral · AI labelView post →Life is Strange next game announcing on January 20th, 10 AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2eH... "Separate the real from the rumor... Join us for the exclusive reveal of the next Life is Strange game."
neutral · AI labelView post →UPCOMING COMICS WRITTEN BY ME: Sink Your Teeth In #1 - On Kickstarter now, funded over 200%, fundraising ends in 2 days! Life is Strange: Reunion Prequel - Available with the deluxe edition of the game on March 26th! Seven Wives #1 - Out May 20th! Monsters in Love: A Pride Antho - Out June 3rd!
neutral · AI labelView post →this is a good piece that claws at some of the stuff i’ve been thinking about re: Life is Strange lately. what kind of ending do Max and Chloe “deserve”? why did they not “deserve” the ending of the original game? just because it was sad? aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
neutral · AI labelView post →Would Highly Recommend this game, took about 10 hours for me to finish, I enjoyed all of it. Its a huge step-up from Double Exposure. Shed a tear by the end.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Out now on PlayStation Plus Game Catalog: 🛡️ Kingdom Come: Deliverance 📸 Life is Strange: Double Exposure …and more. Full details: play.st/4aim96H
neutral · AI labelView post →HAPPY LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION DAY Go buy the deluxe edition and get the prequel comic written by ME with art by Claudia Leonardi! Then play the game and give Max and Chloe the video game ending they deserve!
neutral · AI labelView post →What are some other quintessential Obama games? I feel like Jetpack COD and the first Life Is Strange game are peak Late Obama
neutral · AI labelView post →I was so worried but I had a blast! Played it both Bae and Bay and liked both 100%ed it and it was overall fun the whole time and most of the achievements were doable with no guides if you took your time exploring Chloe is delightful as always I see people calling it fan service and you know what? Maybe, but I am a fan and I feel serviced LOL
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Impossibly, I played Gwen Hunter in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure which launched yesterday.
neutral · AI labelView post →NOT RECCOMENDED AT ALL (PLS READ) i've been a fan of the life is strange series since the first game came out, & honestly this feels like the most cynical entry of the series. the original game had rougher graphics, sure but the writing was miles better (shaka brah). it had tension, emotional weight, memorable choices, & characters that actually felt alive. this game looks pretty, but the story & dialogue are painfully underwhelming. i'd take the older graphics any day if it meant getting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wrote about the first Life is Strange game for Boss Fight! I’m really excited about it!!!! I think this book is one of my favourite things I’ve written and I also think I only could’ve written it in my mid to late 30s
neutral · AI labelView post →Better than Double Exposure. They made a solid comeback, but they still can't compare to DONTNOD.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs be like: "Do you remember what happened in the previous game? Well, we don't, but here's Chloe so shut up about it already." This game makes Double Exposure feel like a masterpiece.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another test with brush marks, inspired by the simpler Life is Strange 2 in-game photo illustrations
neutral · AI labelView post →The hours played number is off, because the game won't let you skip the dialogues, even at your second playthrough, so I watched series on the side and got distracted a lot. This will be my last game from this series. I've been a fan since day one, played and replayed their games ALOT but the last few games left a bitter taste in my mouth and this one just broke me. I was SO excited to find Max and Chloe again that I replayed the game twice, doing everything differently, hoping to like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is not episodic, which is a bit strange (no pun intended) and without it the game lacks the same kind of spacing. Otherwise, so far, the game has filled in the blanks left from the previous LIS games very well- about as well as one could hope for. The visuals are very good, and the story is captivating from the get-go. No shaka-brahs as of yet, which is a bit dissapointing. EDIT: So after beating the game, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what a heartstring-tugger. There are 3 endings, of which I got the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished Life is Strange: Reunion in about 10 hours, just one day after release, and as someone who has played the whole series from the very beginning, including the DLCs, this game hit me right in the heart. Seeing Max and Chloe again, especially since they’ve always been my favorites, was honestly priceless. I literally finished the game 5 minutes ago, and all I can think is: I need more. Just like I did with the other games, I’m already ready to go back, replay everything, see every…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have very mixed feelings about this one. On one hand I'm happy to see Max and Chloe back together, on the other hand basically every other charater took the backseat for this game. Same performance problems, but this time with less graphical glitches. The overall story is mostly just boring nostalgia bait, that goes out like a wet fart. If this game didn't have Chloe in it, it would be the worst in the entire franchise. Still better than True Colors tho. The writing is even worse this time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, note, this IS a sequel to Life is Strange: Double Exposure that came out couple of years ago. Now, I actually found Life is Strange: Double Exposure to be fine ( I didn't write a review for it because I couldn't say I recommended it nor did I not recommend it, but enjoyed the setting and the story was interesting). For this game right here, Life is Strange: Reunion......it's a disappointment in my opinion. The locations and the setting is almost EXACTLY the same as the previous…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →October #promosky I'm Matt, 37, I'm a disabled game addict that just wants to meet and talk to new people. 🗡️ Final Fantasy 🪄 Tales 🪓 God of War ⏪ Life is Strange 🏭 Satisfactory 🥷 Assassin's Creed 🥷 Ghost of Tsushima 🪖 Battlefield 🧟 TLOU 🌃 Cities Skylines 🚘 GTA ↺ + ♡︎ pls
neutral · AI labelView post →Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape 1 enters the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog today 📼 Dive into a '90s adventure from the developers of Life is Strange: play.st/3X7wU54
neutral · AI labelView post →Life is Strange: Reunion is all about Pricefield shipping and nothing else. This game is just about Pricefield shipping and everything else falls by the wayside. It tries to relive the original game's glory and constantly congratulates itself with callbacks to the original games with none of the charm they had. The original games had a point of view, had unique art directions, had a sort of irreplaceably endearing quality to them -- a warmth and intrigue that Deck Nine has tried and failed to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review after my first full playthrough (will definitely replay for other endings) Honestly, I bought the game just because I'm a longtime fan of the series and was initially very skeptical about Reunion game specifically, had zero expectations for anything good BUT after the very first hour of playing I realized how wrong I was. This is exactly the Life Is Strange experience I wanted to see, the game pulls you into the story, raises a ton of questions and makes you live through the plot,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION IS OUT! 🥳🙌🏻 here’s your friendly reminder to tag your photos/videos/etc. when sharing about the game! some people aren’t able to play it right away! 🎮 I AM SO HYPED TO PLAY!
neutral · AI labelView post →was it fan service? yes. but it was fan service made for me specifically so it's okay <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much like this game’s predecessor Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: Reunion is a bit of a mixed bag. For every positive aspect of the game, there’s also a negative aspect dragging the experience down. Positive 1. Chloe returns. She’s a bit older, a bit wiser, but still recognizable as Chloe, for the most part. 2. Max is Max. She leads with her heart, not with her head. And she bears the weight of the world upon her shoulders. 3. The few times Max and Chloe get to exist…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fantastic sequel, dont listen to the haters! Life is strange reunion is a risky move to pull off as its a continued sequel to a beloved game made many years ago, and i think they nailed it! Story - reunions mystery is very well thought out, it doesn't have to be this supernatural being or entity but real people with real problems we have probably faced in real life, most characters return from double exposure and actually have real relevance to the story and move it along and are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far its been great, A few small confusing details over all (which is to be expected with a LiS game) but the characters feel more important than in DE and the choices (so far) feel more important as well. its also GREAT to have chole back. I'm gunna milk this for all its worth Music is fantastic (comparable to true colors) it feels like Max is dealing with so many problems at once which reminds me of LiS 1 (not to mention Chloe being back) DE felt boring and repetitive, while this feels…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Real astronauts vs Aphelion: the new Space Game from the Makers of Life is Strange youtu.be/k_2H53k-yLw
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, it's feels like a really emotional return to Max and Chloe’s story. If you liked the original, this hits a lot of the same vibes, choices matter, the music’s great, and the story can get pretty intense. The reunion between them is definitely the highlight, and it’s handled in a way that feels meaningful instead of just fan service. Gameplay is pretty similar to before, with Max’s rewind and some added mechanics, so it’s easy to get into. That said, it’s not perfect, there are a few…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →✨️ Life is Strange: Double Exposure Collector's Edition ✨️ I ordered this for my wife months ago, and it finally arrived today! (game not included wtf) Life is Strange was one of the first games my wife and I ever played together, so we're really excited to play this tonight 🥹
positive · AI labelView post →4 of my favourite video game characters: Varric [Dragon Age] Max Caulfield [Life is Strange 2015] Jackie Welles [Cyberpunk 2077] Celes Chere [Final Fantasy VI]
neutral · AI labelView post →Here at the Game Awards representing FFVII REBIRTH and LIFE IS STRANGE: DOUBLE EXPOSURE. Let’s hope we win something! 🙌🏻
neutral · AI labelView post →A "choices & consequences game" where choices & consequences don't matter. Not recommended. Considering that Double Exposure was a disappointment, I didn't have high expectations for Reunion. Incredibly unemotional story despite Chloe's return. LIS was standing out as intelligent, meaningful, purposeful and artful game that was then reduced to a caricature of what it was once standing for. The characters are poorly written, the setup is recycled DE. Instead of depth, we get a "a crummy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hated DE. I still hate DE. I hate it with a passion.....but I loved this game. I haven't enjoyed A LIS game so much since the original. I am absolutely shocked at how well done this game was compared the the previous. I went into this game thinking it was gonna be another dud of a story with cute Pricefield moments mixed in, but my expectations were blown out of the water. The story is absolutely amazing from top to bottom. There was nothing I disliked about it. Was it absolutely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Producers of newly announced Life is Strange TV show say it "deserves to be more than just a game" www.eurogamer.net/producers-of...
neutral · AI labelView post →So I just started playing inFamous Second Son, and I love how this feels like a Life is Strange game with a combat system. 🥹
neutral · AI labelView post →My review for Life is Strange Reunion (mild spoilers): I like it, but I still have some mixed feelings about the game. On one hand, I love seeing Max and Chloe together. On the other, I can't shake the feeling that this entire game is just fanservice. But hey, I'm the fan being serviced here, so I'm gonna take what I can get. I'm just gonna quickly go through positives and then negatives: • I like how quickly the story hooks you, it gets intense fast. • Max and Chloe are still amazing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →90% nostalgia bait + 10% AI generated story. What a boring, soulless cash grab. AGAIN. The original LiS from a decade ago had less awkward animation and a story written by actual talented people. Max would have rewound and refunded this slop herself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION comes out in 5 DAYS!! Beyond being the conclusion to Max and Chloe's video game saga, the Deluxe Edition also comes with a prequel comic written by ME with art from long-time series artist Claudia Leonardi!
neutral · AI labelView post →I am a 30 years old tattooed guy who fell in love with first Life is Strange game years ago that basically saved my life during one of my hardest times in my life. Since then I played all LiS games multiple times, I love these games, but not all of them made me emotional like the first game did. But this one did. Playing this game felt like playing first Life is Strange game for the first time. I felt joy, I laugned, I smiled, I was nervous, I was stressed, I cried. It was an emotional…
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