Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered similar games & best alternatives

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.

What works

  • Emotional and immersive story
  • Strong character development
  • Improved facial animations and graphics in remaster
  • Meaningful player choices
  • Excellent soundtrack

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and glitches reported
  • Short game length
  • Some audio and subtitle issues
  • Limited gameplay mechanics
  • Remaster improvements considered minor by some

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • True Love ~Confide to the Maple~

  • Memory Oblivion Box

  • Monobeno

  • Maitetsu:Pure Station

  • Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World-

  • Along the Edge

More fantastical

Games that feels like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered but with more imaginative fiction

  • TAISHO x ALICE epilogue

  • Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons

  • Starlight Vega

  • TAISHO x ALICE episode 3

  • Monobeno-HAPPY END- Deluxe

  • Bishojo Mangekyo Kotowari to Meikyu no Shojo

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered but with a stronger sense of community

  • Life is Strange: True Colors

  • BUSTAFELLOWS

  • Life is Strange: Reunion

  • Life is Strange Remastered

  • Life is Strange: Before the Storm

  • 夜永 Eternal Love

Less expressive

Games that feels like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered but with less self-expression and customization

  • Love Ribbon

  • Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo

  • Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition

  • Endless Jade Sea -Midori no Umi-

  • Tiny Snow

  • Memories Off -Innocent Fille-

More exploratory

Games that feels like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Life is Strange - Episode 1

  • Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

  • A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

  • Love Begins With Goodbye

  • Elisa: The Innkeeper - Prequel

  • Tell Me Why

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Life is Strange: Reunion

  • Life is Strange Remastered

  • Life is Strange: True Colors

  • Life is Strange: Before the Storm

  • Life is Strange - Episode 1

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Fantasy.

Last update: 04/08/2026