Life Is Strange: Double Exposure Interdimensional Travel

Key Takeaways

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure introduces interdimensional travel for Max Caulfield, adding a unique twist to the series.
The game focuses on a paranormal detective thriller theme, challenging players to unravel a murder mystery across two timelines.
Deck Nine’s latest installment in the franchise maintains familiar gameplay and story style while upgrading graphics for a more immersive experience.

Multiverses are all the hype right now, and Square Enix seems eager to get a piece of the action.

The Japanese RPG virtuosos have revealed a new Life Is Strange: Double Exposure trailer, and it looks like the new game will involve jumping between dimensions.

In the newest chapter of the Life Is Strange franchise, Max Caulfield is all grown up, and her powers with time have evolved into interdimensional travel. Max can transfer her consciousness to a parallel universe where her murdered friend Safi is alive.

The mission sounds simple enough: find out what happened in that timeline that prevented the murder and use that to save Safi in Max’s original world. Saving a life is not as easy as it sounds, though, as Max and her friends are about to find out the hard way.

This is the first real experience the developers at Deck Nine will have with the original cast introduced by Don’t Nod in Life Is Strange. Coming out on October 29, Double Exposure honors the series’ original feel but adds a twist by swapping simply bending time for interdimensional travel.

Expanding On The Original Life Is Strange

Living the episodes in Max’s life has a more urgent purpose in Double Exposure, which makes the game feel like a bona fide paranormal detective thriller during many of its sequences.

The gameplay and style remain broadly the same as in the previous titles, relying instead on expanding a familiar story to keep the player engaged.

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As a game that thrives on human emotion, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure benefits from the next-gen graphics, as the movements and facial expressions are much more relatable than in previous titles (which already did a fairly good job).

Fans of time travel gaming are well-served this year. Earlier this month, survival horror hit Pathological 3 showed similar mechanics in its announcement trailer, though the protagonist modestly sticks to a single dimension there.

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure will be released on October 29th for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X and S, and PC.