Square Enix Reveals Life Is Strange: Reunion Will Be the Series' Conclusion 'To the Max and Chloe Saga'

After a decennary of storytelling, Square Enix has decided to wrapper up the communicative of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price successful the newly-revealed Life is Strange: Reunion, which is acceptable for motorboat connected PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected March 26, 2026.

A nonstop sequel to 2024's Life is Strange: Double Exposure, featuring galore of the aforesaid secondary characters, Reunion volition besides yet reply instrumentality wishes by bringing backmost some beloved faces from the franchise's archetypal 2015 game.

Max, who returned arsenic the protagonist of Double Exposure, volition reunite with her erstwhile lover/best person Chloe for 1 last escapade — and for the archetypal clip successful the aforesaid game, some characters volition beryllium playable.

Once again, there's a sci-fi enigma to lick and constricted clip to bash truthful — this time, Max's Caledon University indispensable beryllium saved from a deadly occurrence — and erstwhile again, Max tin rewind clip to remake decisions, portion Chloe tin usage her risk/reward "Backtalk" quality from 2017's Life is Strange: Before the Storm to provoke further responses from others.

How is Chloe back, if players antecedently saw her demise? The communicative present seems to beryllium that Chloe is present live careless aft Max merged a brace of disparate timelines successful Double Exposure's finale. Returned to beingness with memories of a past she ne'er lived, Chloe is prompted to question retired Max for answers.

"This crippled builds connected each the character-led, grounded storytelling for which the Life is Strange bid is known, with meaningful choices that impact the result of a melodramatic and astonishing communicative – each culminating successful an epic climax that serves arsenic a finale to the Max and Chloe saga," Square Enix wrote today.

Fans whitethorn beryllium amazed to larn that Max and Chloe's stories volition extremity here, but aft a lengthy and often bumpy improvement roadworthy for the franchise, present possibly feels a bully constituent to guarantee their communicative gets a definitive ending, with some characters unneurotic 1 last time.

Remember that Don't Nod, the series' archetypal developer, ne'er planned for the characters' stories to proceed beyond its archetypal deed game. Remember besides that some Don't Nod and existent shaper Deck Nine person experienced mixed fortunes with the bid since, with the archetypal game's affectional climax inactive considered by galore fans to beryllium the franchise's precocious point. Finally, determination are apt communicative advantages to letting players determine connected a last result for the brace — thing that doesn't request to beryllium unpicked oregon worked astir successful immoderate continuation.

Will Life is Strange proceed without Max and Chloe? Square Enix doesn't spell arsenic acold arsenic stating that Reunion is the past Life is Strange crippled ever — though this feels an ending, for now.

Farewell, Max and Chloe.

"We couldn’t disregard the calamity astatine the bosom of Max and Chloe," Life is Strange elder marque manager Andrew James said successful an Xbox Wire blog station today. "Their reunion could beryllium nary speedy fix.

"Max and Chloe’s narration is astatine the halfway of the story," James continued, "a narration that YOU volition take however to make implicit the people of the game. Whether Chloe lived oregon died successful Arcadia Bay, and whether she and Max were friends oregon lovers — these choices are cardinal not conscionable to the past you’ll corroborate arsenic you play, but to the future you’ll combat for the accidental to build."

Upon launch, Life is Strange: Reunion volition beryllium disposable for $40. There's besides a $50 Deluxe variation featuring a integer soundtrack, creation publication and comic, and entree to a behind-the-scenes documentary with returning Max Caulfield histrion Hannah Telle, and Rhianna DeVries, Deck Nine's histrion for Chloe Price. (Yes, thankfully there's nary feline contented sold separately this clip around.)

If you're yet to play Double Exposure, a treble battalion of some games volition beryllium disposable for $60. (It's a coagulated introduction successful the bid that sets up a caller formed of characters we'll spot much of successful Reunion — and 1 which Chloe fans whitethorn present bask much successful retrospect.) Finally, a $100 Collector's Edition of Reunion volition beryllium disposable for die-hard fans, featuring a scope of carnal goods specified arsenic a 12" vinyl soundtrack.

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