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Life is Strange: Double Exposure

Developer
Deck Nine
Publisher
Square Enix
Released
29 October 2024
Age rating
PEGI 16
UK price
£49.99

Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch

Genres: adventure

Max Caulfield, photographer-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon University, discovers her closest new friend Safi dead in the snow. Murdered. To save her, Max tries to Rewind time – a power she’s not used in years… Instead, Max opens the way to a parallel timeline where Safi is still alive and still in danger! Max realizes the killer will soon strike again – in both versions of reality. Only Max can Shift between the two parallel timelines to solve and prevent the same murder.

Best gaming PC for Life is Strange: Double Exposure in 2026

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Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Life is Strange: Double Exposure today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.

Mid-tier

£1,299

1440p · 60fps

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 7700
GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
RAM
32 GB
Storage
2TB NVMe SSD
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High-end

£1,799

1440p · 144fps

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
RAM
32 GB
Storage
2TB NVMe SSD
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Official system requirements

These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Square Enix on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.

Minimum Recommended
OS Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit
CPU Intel Core i5-2400 / AMD FX-6300 Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM 12 GB 12 GB
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB / AMD Radeon RX 470, 4GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 8GB / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, 12GB
Storage 25 GB 25 GB
DirectX 12 12

Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.

Can your PC run Life is Strange: Double Exposure?

If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and your GPU is at or above NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 8GB / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, 12GB, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.

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