Some of you who are newcomers to this game might still be confused about the controls and how to play, and you might be looking for articles on how to play it. Well, don't worry, I'll explain it in detail starting from the in game menu its controls.

For detailed explanation, I'll cover movement controls, camera movement, interacting with NPCs, and interacting with objects around.

Oh, before we proceed, I want to provide information that this article is intended for those playing on the PC platform, not consoles like Xbox, PS3, and others.

Alright, without further do!

How to Play Life is Strange

As I mentioned, although there's already an explanation in the "How To Play" section in Settings, I'll narrate it in more detail.

How to Start Download

Life is Strange game can be found on Steam and can be played for free but only for 1 episode. To access episodes 2-5, you need to purchase them.

Purchase link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/Life_is_Strange__Episode_1/

After that, you'll need 17GB of storage space for this game, and you can play it by pressing Play on Steam. Not only on Steam, you can also play the Android version on the Play Store by searching for "Life is Strange." On Android, the game size is 2GB, so make sure you have enough space to install the game.

Game Menu

In this game, there are several menus. Starting from new game/continue, play episodes, choices, help & options, and others.

1. New game to start a new game,
2. Continue to continue the story from the last checkpoint,
3. Choices to see the percentage of choices you made (can be for friends or the whole world),
4. Help & options for assistance and to adjust the video graphics in the game.
5. For downloadable content or DLC, it's additional DLC from this game. This DLC includes episodes 2 and 5 that you can purchase on Steam.

Chapter/Episode Selection

You can use the play episodes menu to choose a specific episode. In this game, there are 5 different episodes, starting from Chrysalis, Out of Time, Chaos Theory, Dark Room, and Polarized.

Each episode has different choices and storylines, and also, each choice from the episode will lead to different events in the following episode.

Choices/Percentage of Choices

This is a summary of the choices you made in each episode. Choices here can be seen in Friends Stats and World Stats categories. Friend Stats are choices made by your friends, while World Stats are summaries from around the world.

Settings

The most important thing in the game is the Settings menu. In this game, there are several settings, ranging from video settings, audio settings, language and subtitle settings, and control settings.

For example, if you have very low specifications, you can adjust the graphics through video settings. In video settings, you can adjust the desired graphic quality, such as brightness and gamma in the game. You can choose from low, medium, to high.

Then for audio settings, you can adjust the sound quality produced such as 3D Surround, 7.1 surround, or stereo/mono.

Language & subtitles settings are to display subtitles/languages in the game, appearing when you interact with NPCs or interact with objects. For subtitles, there's only one, which is English.

As for control settings, you can adjust the sensitivity level on the mouse, invert X and Y axis, and others related to game controls.

Movement Controls/Camera Controls

Although there's already an explanation in "How to Play," I want to explain it in more detail using Indonesian. In controls here, the explanation includes moving the character, moving the camera, how to run fast, and others.

1. The W, A, S, D keys are used to move the character, just like playing FPS games or other games.
2. The mouse is used to move the camera, rotate, or view other perspectives. Mouse usage is also necessary to interact with objects or NPCs.
3. Hold Shift to run or move fast. Also, don't forget to press W + Shift.
4. Hold the left mouse click and release it to interact (according to the command/object you selected). To do this, just direct the character to the NPC or object you want to interact with.
5. Click the middle mouse/scroll to default camera.
6. Tab to open the journal. In the journal, there are profiles of each character, photos you take (depending on the situation), and other objectives.

Using Rewind Power/Reverse Time

Just like the explanation above, I'll explain it in more detail.

1. Hold the right-click to rewind time. If you hold the right-click/rewind time for too long, your screen will turn red. What happens if the screen turns red? Nothing happens.
2. When rewinding time, hold Shift to rewind time faster. How do you do it? By pressing the right-click + Shift to do it.
3. Press rewind time (right-click) + CTRL to directly go to the previous action indicated by the rewind symbol. This applies to all events if there's a dialog choice.
4. After you rewind, you can teleport. This can be used depending on certain situations.
5. You can use the power of rewinding time for selected events or future events that will appear. Usually to get a response or the next event that will appear.

Interacting/Replying to NPC

In the game, you can interact with NPCs/Non-Playable Characters. How to do it is by directing the player to the NPC character, then hold the left-click and select interact, besides that, you can reply to the NPC's response.

Always remember, if you interact, you can get different responses, and if you don't like the response, you can rewind time to get a good response/dialogue.

Interacting with Objects

Not only NPCs, you can also interact with various objects in this game, such as photos, laptops, journals, and others. The way is similar to interacting with NPCs, by directing the object you want to interact with.

If you interact with objects like a laptop, you can open Twitter, blogs, and social media from that object.

Other Stuff

Lastly, there are other stuff, which includes other important things related to the progress of the game, such as;

1. Your objectives are always available in the journal, to open the journal you need to press the TAB button on the keyboard. If you press TAB, you can find several journals, profiles of the character, other characters, and photos you have obtained during the game.
2. (The butterfly icon) indicating your chosen action at that moment will have consequences in the next event. You can also rewind time to get different events.
3. (The ellipsis icon) indicating you have successfully learned useful facts, and you can also rewind time if you want to.
4. Newest journal/object will appear with a star mark (stars).
5. Take all photo objects to be depicted in your journal.

Additional information about other stuff, there are 3 Life is Strange game series:

1. Life is Strange (2015), in this version, you can only play as the character Max Caulfield as the main character. Max has the power to rewind time.
2. Life is Strange: Before the Storm (2017), in this version, you play as a character named Chloe Price, who is the childhood friend of Max Caulfield. Chloe Price in this game has a feminine nature and unfortunately doesn't have any special powers.
3. Life is Strange 2 (2018), in this version, you play as the new characters named Sean Diaz and Daniel Diaz. In this version, the second character, Daniel Diaz, has the power of telekinesis, which allows him to move objects from a distance.
4. Life is Strange True Colors (2021)

So, that’s it, about How to Play Life is Strange. For those of you who are playing this game for the first time, you might be confused about the controls, so make sure to learn them first to get used to them.