Life is Strange: Before the Storm
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This 2017 action-adventure game features 33,358 Steam reviews. The developer slug is unknown, and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a 2017 Action game developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 33,386 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $17. The pairing of developer Deck Nine with publisher Square Enix is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.8 million to 4.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Life is Strange: Before the Storm can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
33,386
Positive
93%
Steam appid
554620
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.8M to 4.2M
units (median: 3.0M)
≈ $17.5M to $40.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Life is Strange: Before the Storm at roughly 1.8 million to 4.2 million copies, with a median around 3.0 million, derived from its 33,386 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $29.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $9.25Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.25 to $16.99, averaging $15.57 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.25 on 2026-03-25.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Story RichChoices MatterGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericSingleplayerEpisodicAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureMultiple EndingsThird PersonDramaMysteryActionIndieLGBTQ+Walking SimulatorPoint & ClickPsychological HorrorMemes
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Life is Strange: Before the Storm sold?
- indielist estimates Life is Strange: Before the Storm has sold between 1,802,844 and 4,206,636 units (median 3,004,740), derived from its 33,386 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Life is Strange: Before the Storm?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm was developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix.
- When was Life is Strange: Before the Storm released?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Life is Strange: Before the Storm have on Steam?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm has 33,386 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Life is Strange: Before the Storm sold?
- indielist estimates Life is Strange: Before the Storm has sold between 1,802,844 and 4,206,636 units (median 3,004,740), derived from its 33,386 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Life is Strange: Before the Storm?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm was developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix.
- When was Life is Strange: Before the Storm released?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Life is Strange: Before the Storm have on Steam?
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm has 33,386 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Life is Strange: Before the Storm within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Deck Nine's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Life is Strange: Before the Storm sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Life is Strange: Before the Storm page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.