Life is Strange is a graphic adventure game that is split up into five episodes. The episodes were released throughout 2015 and developed by Dontnod Entertainment. The story is told in a third person view and you play as the main character Maxine Caulfield also known as Max. In the game she discovers she has the power to rewind time which is the main mechanic you use throughout the game.

This is useful in the game because it not only allows you to go back and change a choice if you did not like it but go back in conversations and some of the dialog options will change based on information you learned before you rewound. This also applies to any object you get before you rewind time it will remain with you.

The game is set in the fictional town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon in October of 2013. The main character Max after having visions of what she later realizes is the future where a tornado swell destroying the town gains the power to rewind time. The first thing she does is save her friend Chloe from being killed. She also realizes she can go far into the past if she uses a photo. She does this many times as she completely alters time trying to fix things for her friend Chloe whose father died.

This power however if she over uses it causes her to get a nosebleed and sometimes faint which means she can only go so far back in time.This becomes a problem when Max stops time to try and stop her friend Kate from committing suicide. You have to make the right choices to talk her down this is one of the choices in the game that you can not rewind to do it right. Max tries to help Kate find out what happened to her after she was drugged and a video of her went viral.

Max also tries to find out what happened to Chloe’s friend Rachel Amber which she finds out is related to what happened to Kate. Throughout the game you have to make a lot of choices but the major one is at the end were you have to decide if you save Chloe or the town which if you choose to save the town you have to go back in time one final time to the beginning of the game and let Chloe be killed.