Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 06:12 am
Life is Strange: Before Storm – Adventure Game Review
Life is Strange: Before Storm is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from SQUARE ENIX Ltd, first launched in 21st September 2018.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 1,140+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Life is Strange: Before Storm Stand Out
" Supported Devices: OS: Xcode 14.3 supported devices, iOS 12 or higher. All devices starting from iPhone X.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm features Chloe Price a 16 year-old rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber, a beautiful and popular girl destined for success. When Rachel’s world is turned upside down by a family secret it takes their newfound alliance to give each other the strength to overcome their demons.
- Choice and consequence driven narrative adventure
- Multiple endings depending on the choices you make
- ‘Backtalk’ – A risk/reward conversation mode that allows Chloe to use her barbed tongue to provoke or get her way
- Make your mark on the world with witty tags and drawings
- Choose Chloe’s outfit and see how people react to your look
- Distinct Licensed indie soundtrack & original score by Daughter"
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Life is Strange: Before Storm is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
"Support added for newer OS versions and device models. Various fixes and optimizations for newer devices. Social media integrations have been removed.
Let us know what you like and what we can do even better at ""support.eu.square-enix.com"".
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Download & Availability
Life is Strange: Before Storm is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Life is Strange: Before Storm on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its a thrilled series with classics with life is strange continsum.
Just like skybounds TWD these didnt get the love it deserved.
Been playing all the lis games for a while and the glitches do happen but they dont affect the gameplay at all. We think sometimes it can be weird but they arent really bothering us. Definitely not as hard as LiS its a good level of solving. Also, we spent our money on the first episode to not waste our money all at once, but when we got to the bonus episode we had to pay $8 for the whole pass (already bought all of the episodes except for the bonus) but its whatever. Just dont make us pay again, LOVE THIS GAME ANYWAYS.
Please add controller support. We want to play using our Backbone.
We love this game but it would be so much easier to being able to use a controller to play.
This game had some glitches yes, but can you blame it? Its been around for some while. Its a beautiful story, we get to see so much of Chloe and her past, which makes you understand her actions more in the first game, and Rachels character is amazing. Sure it had no life threatening plot like LIS 1 did, but we think thats what made it good. It had a plot that was just fun, nothing that makes you worry about your actions a ton. We love it and we love the way it makes us feel, its aura was amazing and we truly love it.
This is such a great game,we wish there were more episodes! It brings us comfort in heartbreaking times.
So we got this game after we finished Life is Strange and downloaded all of the episodes before we started. We were really pumped until we got to the point in the first episode where Chloe had to change out of her party clothes and head downstairs for breakfast. Im not sure if it is a bug or just our iPad, but no matter how many times we tried tapping on the shirt we wanted it wouldnt let us have it! We tried restarting the game multiple times and it didnt work. All Im asking is for you guys to please fix it so we can play the game because we really enjoyed the first one.
This game is awesome, we will say it is way better on a console. On mobile its a bit harder to move characters around and it will glitch at times but honestly if you have the chance to play it on a console it will definitely make your game experience way fun and better. We love the storyline it gives and we finished the whole game. Over all its a fun game and would recommend it if you love a game that tells a story but lets you pick your own choices and has different outcomes!!!! Over a 5 start in our opinion.
Please add controller support.
We can replay this games many times, only thing is they should add joystick controls like the original life is strange.
Its really an amazing game our favorite for sure but we cant get past when chloe and frank are in the trailer driving it just exits out the game.
We paid for the entire package and now we still cant get it we have screen shots showing that we purchased it but still cant play.
Everything was perfect besides the glitches, which drove us a little insane. Love this story. Def make sure to play the first one (LiS) before this one!! Makes for a better experience imo!! Just fix the glitches pls so we can see more of our wife, rachel amber.
We think the game itself is beautiful but this one needs a joystick like the original life is strange mobile. Its kind of annoying trying to navigate and then press a button then it moves to a place that we didnt want to go. When all what we were trying to do is press the button, we just dislike the tap to move the game should have an option to change that. The game is so nice to not have an option like that.
The dialogue is kinda embarrassing but its a good game. We wish they could get Life Is Strange 2 on mobile though.
So on episode one when Chloe Price was going to school, David mouth was not opening, but the face was moving and it was terrifying. So please fix that bug in the game please.
We love it we just keep losing progress.
Some things were bugged.. Some people disappear when ur a scene and tap to move is just going insane.
But the touch version is too clumsy and gets frustrating. Please please add controller support. We played the first on one (backbone XBox version). Else, a great game. Good job.
We loved this game. The storyline and everything, it is a great sequel to the regular game. But we don't exactly recommend the mobile version, very low quality but we did not expect much as we are on a phone. We loved seeing chloe's pov tho. Great game.
We want to try out the game but pls make episode 1 free like the other life is strange.
We love this game and we especially loved life is strange!! The only problem is when we played this like a year or so ago, we got to a certain part where Chloe has to fix her truck, but it wont show the button we need to proceed so ive never been able to finish it :( so a bit disappointing.
Im only giving this 3 stars because we love life is strange but we cant even finish the game . When you have to fix the junkyard car it wont let u do anything with the fuel filter , you cant finish the game because of that.
The details in this game is all out of wack and wish they took the time to put it together nicely instead of it looks like they rushed it together unfortunately, Chloe could be talking to Rachel and shes not even there when shes talking to her or Chloe step douche as she says lol, His face all went oddly when Chloe was talking to him like his mouth was oddly talking it was weird, we wish you all took the time to put this game together instead of rushing it to get it out there overall love the game and the story. We have played the Max & Chloe stories and love all of the series of Life Is Strange.
Why do we have to buy ep1 ? Its still a great game but that just ruins it for us.
We used to own the game of Xbox so Ive loved the storyline for awhile, although Id like it to become an option to use a Bluetooth controller to play on phone like the first game.
We LOVE Life is Strange, both the og and the others. We got this one and the other on our phone (IOS) because it was cheaper then buying it on XBOX. The first game was decent, but this one had lots of problems. The audio gets choppy and delayed, theres problems with the character models, and it kicks us out of the app randomly. The controls are very limited, so the tapping on the screen to walk is really annoying. Our advice is to just buy these games on a different device that would work best for you. We 100% wish we couldve bought these on XBOX before wasting our money. The game is amazing, but those bugs definitely need to be fixed.
We cant do anything bought the whole game and its stuck on us taking a pic of money in dads office. You need to fix.
It a good game it just hard to play the game without a controller can you make it possible to support controllers in the next update.
Really love this series and story. But just like everyone here is saying SO MANY BUGS. Im currently in the junkyard and it wont let us clean the fuel injector so Im stuck there.
The port to mobile on this game had so much potential, but such a buggy mess. Completely ruined the immersion. We played a couple of episodes on mobile and played the rest on a console device. The developers have not taken action at all to fix these bugs or improve the game after so many years. Its sad because the game is so good and the Life is Strange series is our heart and soul, but they messed up the mobile port. Any other device on this game gets a 5 star from us.
We loved playing the first Life is Strange, so when we found out this was also on iOS we got really excited!! Almost done with chapter two and we REALLY love the game so far, but theres lots of bugs. Characters disappearing, moving or facing the wrong way, faces bugging out (looking at you David lol), music disappearing after we pause the gamethings like that. Once again, very good gamejust wish that there were less bugs lol.
So ive played the first life is strange with max and chloe and ive already played this one, both on ps5, but we wanted them both on mobile and we got them both, all episodes.. But this is just insane. Episode one when chloe is talking to david his jaw is just like VERY low and opens like some creature when hes speaking and its terrifying, then his eyes even glitched like his eyelids would go all the way up and his blinking was super off. Throughout the whole episode it did that with david. Then in episode two when characters would be talking they wouldnt even be there in some of the scenes or would glitch and just be staying still when they wouldnt even talk or one time rachel was talking and she was in the floor, now im on episode three and im trying to get out of being stuck in the phone when giving evidence to damon about the money hes asking for, we sent the picture and went back on the phone but it glitched and now im stuck on his messages all zoomed up. We just think this couldve been way better and taken more time on making. Its terrifying and terrible.
Too many bugs!! Every time we download to try again it always gets stuck at the part where chloe is fixing her car up. Its so annoying because we can get past the other bugs but this completely makes it impossible to continue in the gameplay its so frustrating please fix we love this game so far and we loved life is strange.
The game itself is great but, when we tried to buy the full season, nothing happened. Neither the buy episode or full season button worked. Please fix this. We really want to play the game.
Cant connect to game controller.
Super glitchy! Game storyline is okay but the glitches makes it worse.
Im seeing through the freaking walls!!!! What the freak!!!!! We do love this game though.
We recently played Life Is Strange on mobile and we loved it so we decided to play this one, but we couldn't even finish it because the controls were so hard unlike Life Is Strange this one only has one option and we're not very comfortable to play with it. We didn't experience many bugs because we played it for so little, but we've seen people complain about that.
It's a great game we love it but the audio doesn't work.
We love the LIS games so much so its always nice to be able to play them on the go. We just finished playing the first one so we started this one. Before the storm is an amazing game but the mobile port is horrible. We hate the tap to move feature. We really hope one day they add the joystick controls like the first game. Sending love <3.
Id love the game but the controls are atrocious. You just click to where you want to go now and it never is where you want it to go. Why they had to change what actually worked well in the last game. Makes it so hard to play on a phone. Super disappointing to have to pay and then its near impossible.
Life is strange is one of our all time favorite games, but the glitches in a game you have to pay close to $10 on for mobile just completely ruins it for us. We hope these issues are fixed, Davids mouth movements are weird, hes got stroke eyes sometimes, sometimes scenes will glitch and characters wont be on the screen or theyll be like knee height. All of it is very offputting.
We were playing episode one, we almost finished it but in one part the game took us out and we tried to continue but it stayed there and we can't continue.
Guys Im only making this review because of how low this game is rated. We dont normally review games. Playing the game along with the original life is strange was honestly life changing. Both games had us in tears.
There is a lot of bug. The background is very glitched out. And our screen moved to very AKWARD camera angles.
We have always loved life is strange but we cant download it because we have to get less storage. We barely have anything on our iPad now.
If youre still up for it then Ill get a hold on your house tomorrow night Im not going to make any plans this year because of that way is.
We cant play the game on our iPhone 13 pro max it says your device does not meet the minimum specification required to play this game im so confused.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 1,354.75 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: SQUARE ENIX Ltd
Last updated: 14th February 2024 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: SQUARE ENIX Ltd