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
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 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
1440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- 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 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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