# Life is Strange: Before Storm — user reviews > 360 indexed App Store user reviews of Life is Strange by SQUARE ENIX, rated 3.50/5 from 1,170 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-is-strange-before-storm/id1293250289/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-is-strange-before-storm/id1293250289.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 556 · 4★ 108 · 3★ 141 · 2★ 112 · 1★ 253 ## What do users think of Life is Strange? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great story and characters - 🎨 Beautiful art style - 🎶 Excellent soundtrack - 👍 Engaging gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent glitches and bugs - 🕹️ Frustrating controls and navigation - 🚧 Unpolished mobile port - 💰 Expensive for a mobile game **Commonly reported bugs** - Characters disappearing or glitching during scenes - Crashes and freezes, especially in later episodes - Inability to progress due to game-breaking bugs - Graphical issues like distorted textures and animations **Most requested features** - Add controller support - Improve camera and movement controls - Optimize performance and stability - Provide more free content ## Newest reviews (14 of 360) ### 2/5 — ?? *2026-08-17, version 1.1.1* Weird controls, unlike the other life is strange games you have to pay for the episode or you get a really short demo, mental I just wanna see amberprice ### 4/5 — its a good ahh game *2026-08-10, version 1.1.1* ive played life is strange, LIS before the storm and LIS 2 they are all fun i just wish you didnt have to pay for episodes bc im broke but i love watching jay kubz scouts play it ### 2/5 — I like the storyline just glitching and gameplay not the best *2026-07-18, version 1.1.1* You can only move by tapping to the place you want to go which is a bit hard to play and it is a bit hard to move the screen around. The characters are glitching i.e. in the floor or just not being in the scene at all. ### 4/5 — Glitchy *2026-06-14, version 1.1.1* I love this game so much it’s amazing and the storyline and information you get on Chloe’s past and about Rachel is so good but it is so glitchy characters will either glitch and be in the wrong spot it they will just completely disappear this is my fav game so I really hope it gets fixed ### 2/5 — Major Bugs *2026-05-22, version 1.1.1* The story was amazing but on the 3rd episode it stayed “corrupt data” and it deleted all my 8 hours of progress which is BS. ### 3/5 — Dommage *2026-01-21* Le jeu est parfaitement bien. L’histoire est bien, j’adore, j’ai acheté le jeu complet. Je suis à l’épisode 2 et quand il montre la dispute avec les parents de l’autre fille ça passe toute une image avec la musique et ça reste bloqué sur le chien, il y a un petit bug et ça bouge pas en fait et puis je recommence puis ça bug et ça me déçoit beaucoup parce que j’aimais bien le jeu, j’aimerais bien le terminer…🙄 ### 3/5 — eh *2026-01-18, version 1.1.1* It’s a good story if you want to learn more about chloe, but it’s pretty buggy. i’m playing on mobile and the movement controls are super hard. there’s no built in joystick like the first game and you can only tap to move which takes a while to get where you want. And changing the pov by dragging the camera around barely works. ### 2/5 — Ok game could be great *2026-01-06, version 1.1.1* This game needs controller support touch controls ruined the gameplay please ad controller support then the game would be great on mobile ### 4/5 — Movement controls need to be updated ASAP!!! *2026-01-05* I love these games soooo bad but I just wish we had better movement controls😭 I can only turn my screen so much and having to get around is a pain. Will be playing anyway because I did pay for it but oh well. I just hope it can be fixed one day ### 4/5 — You just gotta press around the prompt or tap the text box then it should let you get dressed *2025-12-31* Just tap the text box when you are supposed to get dressed before heading down stairs ### 2/5 — don’t waste money on this! *2025-11-24, version 1.1.1* so i’ve played the first life is strange with max and chloe and ive already played this one, both on ps5, but i wanted them both on mobile and i got them both, all episodes.. but this is just insane. episode one when chloe is talking to david his jaw is just like VERY low and opens like some creature when he’s speaking and it’s terrifying, then his eyes even glitched like his eyelids would go all the way up and his blinking was super off. throughout the whole episode it did that with david. then in episode two when characters would be talking they wouldn’t even be there in some of the scenes or would glitch and just be staying still when they wouldn’t even talk or one time rachel was talking and she was in the floor, now i’m on episode three and i’m trying to get out of being stuck in the phone when giving evidence to damon about the money he’s asking for, i sent the picture and went back on the phone but it glitched and now i’m stuck on his messages all zoomed up. i just think this could’ve been way better and taken more time on making. it’s terrifying and terrible. ### 2/5 — buggy *2025-11-09, version 1.1.1* too many bugs!! every time i download to try again it always gets stuck at the part where chloe is fixing her car up. it’s so annoying because i can get past the other bugs but this completely makes it impossible to continue in the gameplay it’s so frustrating please fix i love this game so far and i loved life is strange 🩷🩷🙏🙏🙏🙏 ### 3/5 — Love the Game, but it glitched out *2025-10-28, version 1.1.1* I love this game and I especially loved life is strange!! The only problem is when i played this like a year or so ago, i got to a certain part where Chloe has to fix her truck, but it won’t show the button I need to proceed so ive never been able to finish it :( so a bit disappointing ### 2/5 — Unresponsive Purchase Button *2025-10-09, version 1.1.1* The game itself is great but, when I tried to buy the full season, nothing happened. Neither the buy episode or full season button worked. Please fix this. I really want to play the game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not worth it, Trust me. *2026-06-25, version 1.1.1* Now dont get me wrong I love life is strange especially before the storm, It has characters which u can relate to, and choices that actually matter not like most “choice based” games where ur choices dont actually matter, It has mid writing, I purchased every episode and I had to replay the entire game about 1-2 times because it kept crashing and lagging, Not worth it Also the storage is really bad and huge, I recommend just watching someone else play it, Please don’t waste ur money on this. ### 1/5 — I would like to buy it, but until I see good reviews I will not *2026-06-09, version 1.1.1* Fix your games everybody says bugs and glitches man please this is my favorite game ### 1/5 — Difficult to operate *2026-06-05, version 1.1.1* The game looks good, but the anti-human operating system made me give it up. The person who designed the operating system had better let him experience the game completely！ ### 1/5 — Queria, mas não dá *2026-05-15* Vontade de jogar tenho com toda certeza, mas com essas opções de controle é impossível aproveitar a gameplay. ### 1/5 — DONT BUY *2026-02-26, version 1.1.1* do not waste your money on this. the graphics are BAD, and super glitchy. like some of the characters arent on screen when they should be, and when they talk their mouths dont open and it like glitches really bad. the controls are hard to navigate. its tap to move and bad sensitivity. you CANNOT adjust the controls in settings at ALL. this really doesnt give any new information on racheal. the whole game is slop. your choices genuinely have no effect on the game play. its such a messy game with 0 thought put into it. ### 1/5 — Controller Support Please? *2026-02-12, version 1.1.1* They didn’t put the same care or attention into this port as they did with the first game. Couldn’t even be bothered with adding controller support either. I’m tired of this trend in gaming, the lack of passion from the studios. ### 1/5 — Movement *2025-12-08, version 1.1.1* I can’t believe that I wasted my time the whole needing to tap to move killed it I could barely touch the dang people to talk and even connecting my controller to my phone didn’t help. I can’t tap on the screen without it sending my to a different location not as smooth as the first one ### 1/5 — Won't let me get dressed *2025-12-06* After I open the drawer to get dressed before going downstairs i get stuck in the drawer and can't choose any of the shirts ### 1/5 — Problemas no jogo *2025-11-07* A partir do 2 episódio já começa a travar o meu e iPhone XR, espero que resolvam a situação Pois são 50,00 que foram cobrados porém não consigo jogar o jogo!!! Estou muito chateada ### 1/5 — Glitches *2025-10-03, version 1.1.1* Couldn’t pass episode 3 because of a glitch when fixing the truck, I cannot select the fuel filter. It shows it’s there to interact with and it’s the last thing to do to the truck and no way to interact with it. Save your money because this game barely works on iOS and you can’t go past that part. 0 stars. Do not recommend trying to play this on the phone. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fans of Life is Strange *2026-08-19, version 1.1.1* Please No Money only Free please ### 5/5 — Eu amo *2026-08-06* fazer grafite em todos os lugares que tem a opção de fazer ### 5/5 — controls *2026-08-02, version 1.1.1* could you possibly make it playable with a ps4 controller? i find the movement controls difficult to use and would appreciate if i could play it with my ps4 controller because i am on mobile, this is my favourite game and when i play games i definitely prefer to be able to use my ps4 controller i find it much easier and since i can play life is strange with my ps4 controller i would find life is strange before storm so much easier to play with it, i personally love this game with my whole heart, i know you probably won’t see this but i want to be able to play my favourite game with my way of playing games, so if you do see this, please make it playable with ps4 controllers much love ### 5/5 — Game *2026-05-21, version 1.1.1* I like this game very nostalgic yfm ngas playing ts back to back ### 5/5 — One of the best games of all time *2025-12-07* Working perfectly on iPhone 12. The performance is great and there are only a few bugs. The only one which was more noticeable was: in a scene Chloe is fixing a car, and it isn’t possible to click in one of the items. But it is somewhat easy to work around this: you only have to enter the game with screen orientation unlocked and temporarily lock it to click the item and then unlock it again to go back to normal. Well, this is one of the best games of all time and it is really worth its cost. It is possible to see how much care the developers and artists put in this game. ### 5/5 — Humhiuuu *2025-11-10* O vhhhhh ### 5/5 — 操作太垃圾了 *2025-10-24, version 1.1.1* 不如正传 ### 5/5 — Jeux *2025-09-18* Ce jeu est tout simplement incroyable!! Je suis très contente malgré qu’il n’y a pas de joystick ### 5/5 — Yahoow *2025-09-07, version 1.1.1* It’s a thrilled series with classics with life is strange continsum ### 5/5 — (Childhood memories flooding back) *2025-08-18, version 1.1.1* Just like skybound’s TWD these didn’t get the love it deserved! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*