Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Developer
- Deck Nine
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Released
- 29 October 2024
- Age rating
- PEGI 16
- UK price
- £49.99
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, 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
Full buyers guide →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.
Budget
1080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
1440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
1440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
4K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
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 23 August 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, look at the tier picks above.