Games like Life is Strange: True Colors
If Life is Strange: True Colors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: Reunion and Life is Strange Remastered — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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: True Colors is a narrative adventure developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix, released in 2021 at $59.99. Players explore the town of Haven Springs as Alex Chen, using an empathy power to sense and absorb the emotions of others while investigating her brother's death. Reviewers and players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, noting that the choices carry meaningful emotional weight and that the character relationships feel well-developed and relatable. The game features moral-choice systems, narrative-driven exploration, and integrates story content from downloadable expansions. It runs verified on Steam Deck, offering a medium-length single-player experience in a sit-down session format. The title holds a 91% positive rating from over 7,100 Steam reviews.
About Life is Strange: True Colors: 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.
Players who liked Life is Strange: True Colors also play
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Top pick for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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: Reunion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Second-strongest match for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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?
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Third-strongest match for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Ranked #4 for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Ranked #5 for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Ranked #6 for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
Saltsea Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Ranked #7 for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Until Dawn™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Ranked #8 for Life is Strange: True Colors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Life is Strange: True Colors
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Oxenfree
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Night in the Woods
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Shares narrative driven exploration and an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Detroit: Become Human
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Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Until Dawn™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
What Remains of Edith Finch
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Shares narrative driven exploration and an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Tell Me Why
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Outer Wilds
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Reviewers of Life is Strange: True Colors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life is Strange: True Colors at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~83% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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
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Priced ~83% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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 ~67% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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 ~67% under Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
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: True Colors.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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: True Colors.
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: True Colors.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
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: True Colors.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: True Colors. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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 Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: True Colors. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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: Before the Storm Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: True Colors. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
The Expanse: A Telltale Series
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange: True Colors. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
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 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
Saltsea Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Strange: True Colors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange: True Colors.
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Frequently asked about Life is Strange: True Colors
- Is Life is Strange: True Colors verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Life is Strange: True Colors is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Life is Strange: True Colors cost?
- Life is Strange: True Colors is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life is Strange: True Colors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life is Strange: True Colors are Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: Reunion, Life is Strange Remastered.
- Who developed Life is Strange: True Colors?
- Life is Strange: True Colors was developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix.
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