Games like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
If Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life is Strange Remastered, Life is Strange: Double Exposure and Life is Strange: True Colors — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chloes character depth shines, prequel enriches original lore and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered is a story-driven prequel from Deck Nine, published by Square Enix in 2022 for 39.99 USD. It centers on Chloe Price and her intense bond with Rachel Amber before the events of the first game, told through dialogue-driven choices, environmental storytelling, and flashbacks. The remaster updates visuals across characters and settings. Reviewers describe it as emotional, atmospheric, and melancholic, and highlight Chloe's depth and how the soundtrack carries key beats. It deals with heavy themes of loss and trauma. It holds 83% positive of 1,888 Steam reviews and is rated Playable on Steam Deck.
About Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered: Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Players who liked Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered also play
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Life is Strange Remastered
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Shares a melancholic mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Top pick for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Second-strongest match for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Third-strongest match for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Life is Strange: Reunion
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven choices, environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Ranked #4 for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Ranked #5 for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Tell Me Why
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Ranked #6 for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Best Month Ever!
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Ranked #7 for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
🚗 Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! ✅
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Ranked #8 for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Heavy Rain
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Elysium
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Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
Night in the Woods
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Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Oxenfree
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Firewatch
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~75% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~75% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~75% under Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Deck Nine
Other recommendable Steam games by Deck Nine, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
The Expanse: A Telltale Series
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Frequently asked about Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
- Does Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered run on Steam Deck?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered cost?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered are Life is Strange Remastered, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: True Colors.
- Who developed Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered was developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix.
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