Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 10:04 am
Life Is Strange – Adventure Game Review
Life Is Strange is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from SQUARE ENIX Ltd, first launched in 14th December 2017.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 9,197+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Life Is Strange Stand Out
Supported Devices: OS: Xcode 14.3 supported devices, iOS 12 or higher, All devices starting from iPhone X.
Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story-based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present, and future.
Follow the story of Max Caulfield, a photography senior who discovers she can rewind time while saving her best friend Chloe Price. The pair soon find themselves investigating the mysterious disappearance of fellow student Rachel Amber, uncovering a dark side to life in Arcadia Bay. Meanwhile, Max must quickly learn that changing the past can sometimes lead to a devastating future.
- A beautifully written modern adventure game;
- Rewind time to change the course of events;
- Multiple endings depending on the choices you make;
- Striking, hand-painted visuals;
- Distinct, licensed indie soundtrack featuring Alt-J, Foals, Angus & Julia Stone, Jose Gonzales and more.
Reviews and Accolades
Life is Strange, People's Choice Award winner at the International Mobile Game Awards 2018
Mac Game of the Year, United States
5/5 "A must-have." – The Examiner
5/5 "Something truly special." – International Business Times
"One of the best games I've played in years." – Forbes
10/10 "An impressive coming of age story." – Darkzero
Life is Strange, Game Artist Award winner at the International Mobile Game Awards 2018
8/10 "Rare and precious." – Edge
8.5/10 "OUTSTANDING." – GameInformer
90% "Dontnod have clearly put a lot of effort into the little details and it’s worth your time paying attention to their work." – Siliconera
8.5/10 “The climax of Episode Two is one of the most compelling — and devastating — things I’ve ever experienced in a game, because it’s so real, so understandable. Dontnod nails it.” – Polygon
4.5/5 "life is strange has me hooked" – HardcoreGamer
8/10 ".…has the potential to outdo both Telltale Games and Quantic Dream." – Metro
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Life Is Strange 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".
Download & Availability
Life Is Strange is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Life Is Strange 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:
As someone who has loved life is strange forever, but doesnt have a console for it: we are very excited that it is on IOS. We completely understand the fact that you have to pay as you continue on with the episodes, and the quality seems pretty good for being on a little phone.
Add life is strange 2 to the app store and your life is ours #seandiazismygoat.
Great game the reason for 4 stars is the hard maze at the end of the game. We have to keep staring over at the beginning every time and its very difficult to beat, we quit playing because it was very frustrating to keep playing over and over. We finally beat it to have to make a hard choice that made the whole game worth playing please make more games like this one we have played both and want to see more about these characters.
Literally our favorite game no ads no bugs we love sm we were so sad when we knew it was ending lol.
A really realistic game! We really enjoyed it.
Great game its like the walking dead.
We literally love this game so much, nothing bad to say.
It is a really good game and graphics are really good and the storyline gets you super invested but it doesnt work on the iPhone 16 its to zoomed in and you cant exist menus.
10/10 we finished it within 2 days!!! We love how theres so many ways it can go and its super fun to replay and look for all the extra added things!! Im replaying right now its still fun. You gotta get it, dont even think(unless you have an iPhone 16, which we heard makes some problems for the gameplay).
Este juego es bueno la verdad tiene graficazos una buena banda sonora y increble historia un juego que recomiendo para las personas que les gustan juegos con mucha aventura.
Love this game feel so real and college vibe , there is not lag for us but our battery does die fast playing this game. ( sorry for our grammar lol).
This is the best mobile game Ive ever played. The graphics, sound, music and acting are all top-notch. Im actually on our third playthrough now. There are enough plot choices to give the game great replay value.
Im using a 16 Pro Max, and every time we opened the diary, we couldnt click to exit, which made it impossible to continue the game. Then we tried using a controller, and the problem was finally solved. Now Ive bought all the chapters what an amazing game.
Please, creators, make a free play version. We really love this art style, we just wish we could explore and NOT follow a storyline. Again, its just an idea that we believe Ill get you more players. Thank you for understanding :).
We love this game, its just sometimes itll lag and Ill have to exit a lot but idk maybe its just our device or something. Games awesome though and all the details are great.
Perfect, this game is our favorite. We would definitely use your money for this. Changed our life forever in the best way possible but please bring tissues youre gonna cry.
This game has literally changed our life and how we see things.
Omg this game is so good! We wasnt able to finish it and only got to chapter 2 (because Im broke) but what we did play was AMAZING! The story line was so interesting, the animation was SPECTACULAR IF we HAD THE MONEY WOULD TOTALLY BUY THE GAME.
We first discovered this game in 2016 or so and we were 15. This is unlike any game Ive played. Its absolutely life changing and we were really struggling at the time and immediately connected and related to Chloe as a character. This game has heart, heavy themes and really can take you back to high school years. It really makes you think about your choices in life and the potential of it dictating your entire life. We love how it introduces time travel and chaos theory and the butterfly effect and discovering who you are as a teenager and young adult! This game made us full on sob at times and laugh and made us happy too and still holds a special place in our heart.
This game is incredible. We finished it in 2 days and it took us around 10 hours total. No complaints. There werent any bugs or glitches, but it did kick us out from the game during a random cutscene, but that was only once and we didnt loose any progress. We highly recommend this game to literally anyone because its so good and sad, and itll definitely have you thinking hard about the correct choices. We love everything about this game. The story is so cool, nothing like Ive seen before. Its completely original, similar to the tv show stranger things, so if youre a fan of that youll love this game. The characters are so fun, and so cool. We love the way they look, not super realistic, kind of indie and definitely old video-game style. Anyways, pls just get this game if youre thinking about it. Best $8 Ive ever spent in our life.
Im so impressed at the quality of this game especially for mobile!!! And its affordable which is a plus A+++ team.
We really like the game but we hate that you have to pay after a certain point.
This game is so good, we replayed it over and over on our other phone non stop! The story line is amazing, and it keeps your focus but now that we have a iPhone 16 pro, the game doesnt fit in the frame, so anytime the notebook opens, we cant get out of it no matter what and we cant play the game at all because of this. But if this would be fixed and if the game would fit in frame? Itd be perfect.
So first off, we love this game! The characters feel real and the story telling is excellent. We just hate that in order to download and install all the chapters you get one MAJOR SPOILER!!!! We highly recommend waiting to download the next chapter till after youve played the previous one. Also, it says that you can play the game while downloading but when you actually go to download it says please wait for the download to finish. Seeing how it doesnt actually download in the background. This forces you to watch the spoiler on repeat before you can do anything else Lastly, the collectible mode is glitchy. Sometimes your choices get saved, sometimes the picture gets recorded sometimes it doesnt its all up to the whims of the game. So obviously, its best if you avoid using it all together.
We love this game series we played all life is strange games its so fun.
We love this game already but when we get to texting warren and using the journal it doesnt leave.
We brought the whole game and we love it.
Awesome sauce. Endings are not awesome sauce. So not cool.
We love this game sm! It always brings us joy to play it.
We love this game so much, thank you for recommending us this.
Such a great game, please fix for iOS users, you enter the journal and immediately cant play the game anymore.
We came across this game in early July and we havent been the same since. This game and all the games in the franchise are so absolutely amazing like omg. We cant believe this game isnt more popular, well we guess Im trying to make it popular with this review but wow great game. Love how you can play on mobile. Way cheaper than on pc/playstation. Anyway thats enough of us rambling about this game just play it.
This is absolutely beautiful and amazing experience we cant describe it and do it justice.
We really enjoyed this game it had great music, characters, graphics, storyline and really enjoyed this indicting game we loved playing as Max and meeting Chloe we also felt bad for David and Kate, and if you finished this go check out Life is Strange before the storm finally we hope everyone enjoys this amazing game just as much as we did.
This game was definitely a rollercoaster but we think it was definitely worth it. Each episode may take an hour long but it all is worth it in the end, trust us.
The journal is fixed! We repeat the journal is fixed! Thank youuuuuu.
We LOVE this game and when we say love, we mean love this game has impacted us emotionally. Its such a good game definitely recommend five stars. The game is like a movie. The scene is beautiful. We love the way its told and we love everything about it. Definitely recommend 10 out of 10.
AMAZING! This has to be the most fun game ive played in awhile, absolutely worth the money and totally changed our perspective of the world. Its so well written and humorous at times that it was really entertaining and enjoyable to play at all times. It was realistic and even puzzling at times but it was all worth it in the end to see the plot twist! The plot line was even super suspenseful and we really enjoyed playing this game. Im so excited to play the others and we hope more is made of the life is strange collection.
We have a problem, we paid for this already and we have all episodes on our macbook but we have to pay on our phone still and im just wondering how we can connect them.
We loved this game played it more than once. This was a art piece, a masterpiece. It was something to experience. It felt cinematic! Please please release the rest of life is strange on mobile. Pretty please And lastly thank-you for your hard work and creating such a beautiful game.
This game has made us cry because of how good it is this isnt just a game its a story and memories imma show our kids this when they grow up.
This game is so amazing and Ive played the other Life Is Strange games and we love them.
We love this game! Its amazing but Id love it more if it had controller support for our BackBone.
W games the endings was so sad it made us cry for 15 minutes.
Creo q este juego vali la pena, cada centavo y mi tiempo, am demasiado este juego y si tengo la oportunidad jugar todos los juegos d esta saga.
This game is beautifully written, especially if you have played the other games along with it and know the connection between them all. The music, the atmosphere, everything with this game was so fun to play and the mysteries you have to solve are challenging but solvable, a lot of games that have mysteries to solve we get frustrated when literally nothing works and it feels impossible no matter what way you go about it. This game you feel connected with the characters and if you put yourself in Maxs shoes youll be able to understand so much more. Im 17 and we absolutely love this game. We replay it a lot, along with the others, we keep up when they come out with new ones like this because they are so interesting to play. We seriously love this game.
This game is a 5 out of 5 especially for the phone Im an old time gamer havent played RPG in a decade due to our league of legends addiction. Our friend convinced us to try this and it was amazing.
Oh we cant explain how much we love this game.
Erm so anyways how do we get past episode 5.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.01.1
- Size: 911.49 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: SQUARE ENIX Ltd
Last updated: 14th February 2024 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: SQUARE ENIX Ltd