A new installment of the video game series Life Is Strange will be released in March. Life Is Strange: Reunion will reunite players with Max and Chloe, giving them the chance to play as both protagonists in an intertwining story that will conclude their epic saga that began in the original game.
Life Is Strange was first released in 2015 by Square Enix’s External Studios. It followed Max Caulfield, a photography student at Caledon University who discovered she had the power to rewind time, creating ripple effects throughout the timeline depending on her – and the player’s – choices. The game spawned several sequels and a prequel with its story expanded into the comic book medium.
Life Is Strange: Reunion will pick up from the events of the previous game Life Is Strange: Double Exposure which saw Max gain the ability to travel between two different timelines. As a result of Max’s choices, Chloe now lives with memories of the two timelines and they must work together to prevent a deadly fire at Caledon University.
In LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION, players will once again visit Caledon University, where Max Caulfield works as a photography teacher. Returning from a weekend away, Max finds her beloved Caledon ablaze, as a raging inferno destroys the hallowed grounds and ends the lives of Max’s friends, students and faculty alike. Max only escapes the devastation due to her Rewind power – returning from the original LIFE IS STRANGE – a supernatural ability that lets her reverse time.
Jumping back in time through a selfie, Max now has just three days to work out how the fire began. Can she make the most of her second chance to prevent this fiery disaster?
That’s when Chloe Price arrives at Caledon, much to Max’s surprise: a shocking repercussion of Max’s merging of the timelines at the end of LIFE IS STRANGE: DOUBLE EXPOSURE. Haunted by nightmares of a past she never lived, and with her grip on reality unravelling, Chloe needs Max’s help. For the very first time in the series, players can play as both Max and Chloe in the same game, alternating between their different perspectives as the story unfolds.
Life Is Strange: Reunion is once again developed by Deck Nine Games and will be released on March 26th for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
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