Developer DON'T NOD (formerly known as DONTNOD Entertainment) rose to prominence with 2015's angsty tale of teenage time travel, Life is Strange. Announced today, the title that would go on to spawn multiple sequels has crossed the hella good 20 million player mark.
There's an important distinction in that phrasing, which we would guess doesn't correlate to 20 million copies sold. Managing a million in sales in 2015 alone, Life is Strange was released on virtually every platform in existence at the time, including PS3, eventually getting a PS4 remaster in 2022.
It's been slashed in price in numerous sales since, and both iterations have had tenures as PlayStation Plus games, which is to say nothing of platforms like Xbox or Switch. With that in mind, we could see how so many players could have gotten their hands on the legitimately great game. For context, getting 20 million players to boot up your game, however you do it, is swimming in waters with such leviathans as Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring.
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they did give away the first episode for free on all platforms thats helped
wonder if we will get more life is strange ?
I just finished Life is Strange and Before the Storm this week. I really enjoyed both and cant wait to play the others on PS+ soon after a bit of a break.
The first LiS is advertisement to videogames. Amazing. Before the storm was on the weaker side and i won't comment on following entries.
Congrats to them! I really enjoyed the first one and Before The Storm. Haven’t played the second. Didn’t really enjoy True Colors. But nonetheless, impressive feat!
Hands down one of the best stories of any game I’ve had the pleasure to experience, and I grew up on RPG’s of the late 90s/early 00’s. Still breaks my heart thinking about it. Still go back to it to hurt myself all over again. Before the Storm is just a beautiful, simple story of friendship and early love.
Hella must be one of the worst words added to the English lexicon by our American cousins, which is some going because there's been plenty to chose from 😆
One of the best soundtracks in video games too. Fit the themes and scenes perfectly. Still listen to it today.
@trev666 I really enjoyed all four entries. I'm glad I bought all the episodic titles once they were all released, though
Got all of them. Love them all!👍🏻
Wow! Great games but those are impressive numbers.
Absolutely fantastic game! Special shout out to the soundtrack as well which is incredible.
You know how there's that one game in which you find it difficult to press load game because you're immediately hypnotised by the menu theme? That's life is strange 😂
@trev666 I do wonder if we’ll see another one too. Square Enix seemed to have given up on Western developed games… It would be great if they sold the IP back to DON’T NOD if they don’t plan on using it.
Im surprised DONTNOD havnt made their own life is strange type series of games. they made tell me why for Microsoft
Congrats to everybody involved in the original. For the type of game it is, it's a great game and it's nice to see it be so successful.
As a big fan of the series as a whole, I hope we get more from the series at some point. True Colors was just as good, if not better than, the original imo.
You don't remember Remember Me?
@hi_drnick i liked Remember me good game.
cyberpunk even copied the memory rewind feature from that game
for me it goes
1) life is strange
2) true colours
3) before the storm
4) life is strange 2
also shout out to Tell me why another DONTNOD game that feels like a life is strange game in all but name
Nice! I like the series!
I adored the first LiS. It was the perfect little indie adventure game at the right time.
I enjoyed Before the Storm and I'm currently working through 2 - it's good but it hasn't quite hooked me yet.
I couldn't stomach the intro to 2, but man this is one of my favorite series, ever. I played through the other 3 installments once myself and then again with my grandmother. She absolutely adores the games, too. Shout-out to the cliffhanger in Before the Storm where the woods are on fire and it's spreading towards the school. Amazing moment which unfortunately isn't utilized later, but god I love these games.
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