Life is Strange - Episode 1
Last updated: 2025-12-24
- Immersive choice-driven narrative experience
- Outstanding soundtrack enhances atmosphere
- Visually striking and unique art style
- Innovative time-rewind mechanic gameplay
- Slow dialogue pacing disrupts engagement
- Meaningless choices lead to divisive ending
Emotions
Nostalgia12%Admiration9%Reflection5%Love4%Appreciation4%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 171,087
- Positive
- 164,60496.2%
- Negative
- 6,4833.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 9,640,725
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 470.82%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,648
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 480.8% Avg playtime 0.9h | 2374.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1522.7% Avg playtime 15.3h | 5,29692.4% Avg playtime 24h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 14.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 93.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,981.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
5,733 total
Organic purchasers3,75665.5%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations1,97734.5%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
5,733 total
First impression0-2h3846.70%
Voted up: 87%
Mid game2-10h1,52126.5%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h2,18338.1%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+1,64528.7%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.5%
53 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 171,087 total.