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| 2025 | Social Impact award status is pending at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards |
| 2025 | Received an Honorable Mention for Best Narrative at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards |
| 2025 | Hannah Telle was nominated for Great White Way Award for Best Acting at the New York Game Awards |
| 2025 | Don't Nod delayed their game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage to avoid competing with Double Exposure. |
| 2025 | Longlisted for Game Beyond Entertainment at the 21st British Academy Games Awards |
| 2025 | Nominated for Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music at the New York Game Awards |
| 2025 | Nominated for Herman Melville Award for Best Writing at the New York Game Awards |
| 2025 | Outstanding Video Game award status is pending at the 36th GLAAD Media Awards |
| March 2025 | Square Enix reported Life Is Strange: Double Exposure sales as a 'large loss' in their Q3 financial report, indicating significant commercial disappointment for the game. |
| January 28 2025 | Nintendo Switch version of the game was released via retail. |
| January 28 2025 | The Nintendo Switch physical retail version of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was released. |
| 2024 | Hannah Telle was nominated for Best Performance at The Game Awards 2024 |
| 2024 | Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was nominated for Games for Impact at The Game Awards 2024 |
| November 19 2024 | Nintendo Switch version of the game was released digitally. |
| November 19 2024 | The Nintendo Switch digital version of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was released. |
| October 29 2024 | Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was officially released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. |
| October 15 2024 | Players who pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition received early access to the first two chapters of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. |
| June 2024 | Square Enix revealed Life Is Strange: Double Exposure during the Xbox Games Showcase, announcing a direct sequel to the original Life Is Strange (2015) game, developed by Deck Nine. |
| December 2023 | Max discovers a new ability to 'pulse' into an alternate timeline where Safi is still alive, allowing her to travel between parallel timelines. |
| December 2023 | Max and Safi expose Lucas' plagiarism at a Krampus-themed party using their respective powers. |
| December 2023 | Max learns about Maya Okada, a former student who committed suicide after Lucas plagiarized her work, with Safi and Vinh failing to defend her. |
| December 4 2023 | Max uses her rewind power to return to the original date of Safi's death, bringing the destructive storm with them, and merging timelines that include Caledon and memories of Arcadia Bay. |
| December 4 2023 | Max Caulfield discovers her friend Safi Llewellyn-Fayyad has been killed by a gunshot wound in Lakeport, Vermont, while working as a photographer-in-residence at Caledon University. |
| November 2023 | By this month, the game had garnered 20 million total players. |
| July 18 2018 | Life Is Strange launched on Android, ported by Black Wing Foundation. |
| March 29 2018 | iOS version of Life Is Strange fully released across platforms. |
| December 14 2017 | First iOS version of Life Is Strange launched. |
| June 2017 | Life Is Strange included on PlayStation Plus for America and PAL regions. |
| 2016 | Apple labeled Life Is Strange as Game of the Year at its Best of 2016 awards. |
| 2016 | The game is ported to OS X and Linux platforms, expanding its accessibility to additional computer operating systems. |
| 2016 | Square Enix sponsored an 'Everyday Heroes' photography contest inspired by the game, offering a scholarship for the winning entry. |
| July 21 2016 | Feral Interactive ported Life Is Strange for Linux. First episode made indefinitely free across all platforms. |
| June 16 2016 | Feral Interactive ported Life Is Strange for OS X. |
| March 3 2016 | Japanese dubbed version of the game released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. |
| January 23 2016 | The retail edition of Life Is Strange made seventh place in the top ten UK game sales chart for the week ending this date. |
| 2015 | The game was ranked first on Vulture's Top 10 video games of 2015 and received multiple high rankings on various year-end lists from gaming publications. |
| 2015 | At the Global Game Awards, Episode 1 won Best Adventure and Best Original Game, and came in second place for Best Story and Game of the Year. |
| 2015 | The game won New Games IP – PC/console and Use of Narrative at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards. |
| 2015 | PlayStation Official Magazine recognized Life Is Strange in its Best Episodic Adventure category and Episode 2's conclusion in the Best Moment category. |
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| July 2015 | Life Is Strange reached one million sales and accumulated over 1.2 million unique players worldwide. |
| January 30 2015 | First episode of Life Is Strange released digitally on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. |
| August 11 2014 | Square Enix officially announced Life Is Strange at Gamescom. |
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