Originally developed by
DONTNOD Entertainment
Developed for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
This document is intended to help you answer any questions that you may have about Life Is Strange™
Yes, achievements are supported by Life Is Strange.
If you are signed in to Steam, your achievements will be visible to you in-game and also to other players through the Steam application.
Life Is Strange's story is told across five episodes. If you purchased the Complete Season on Steam, you already own all five episodes. However, if you only purchased Episode 1, then you will need to purchase Episodes 2-5 as part of the Season Pass.
You can purchase the Life Is Strange Season Pass from the Steam store. Please note that Episodes 2-5 cannot be purchased individually on Steam.
The Directors' Commentary is a free piece of DLC that adds exclusive behind the scenes videos to Life Is Strange.
If you purchased Life Is Strange on Steam, you can download the Directors' Commentary from the Steam store. Once downloaded, the videos will be available in-game from the Main Menu.
Yes.
The gamepads in the following list have been tested and are supported by Life Is Strange:
If your gamepad is not on the list, email padsupport@feralinteractive.com and our support team will reply to you with a request for information about your device. Once we have this information, a gamepad support file will be created and emailed to you.
Once created, this gamepad support file will be used in all future games and updates - so you will not only be helping us get your device working; you will also help all other owners of the same device who play Feral games!
Yes.
However, you must first enable the secondary click function on your mouse or trackpad. This will enable you to perform a right-click by clicking the right-hand side of your mouse or trackpad.
To do this, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Select Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the Point & Click tab.
Check the Secondary Click checkbox.
Finger "gestures", which are used by Magic Mice and Trackpads to switch between windows and applications, can disrupt your game if used inadvertently.
To disable them, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Click on Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the More Gestures tab.
Uncheck all the checkboxes.
In Life Is Strange, all voice acting is performed in English only. However, text and subtitles are available in the following languages:
If you are playing Life Is Strange on Steam, you can change the language settings in-game by selecting Help & Options → Settings → Language and Subtitles Settings from the Main Menu. Set the Subtitles Language setting to your preferred language.
The dock or notifications may occasionally appear while you are playing Life Is Strange, or the desktop cursor may replace the game cursor. This can disrupt a game.
You can prevent them from occurring by checking the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox in the Life Is Strange pre-game Options window. To do so, follow these steps:
From the Life Is Strange pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox.
Yes.
To run Life Is Strange in windowed mode, follow these instructions:
From the Life Is Strange pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Run in a window checkbox.
Click the Play button. The game will start in windowed mode.
NOTE: Enabling windowed mode may decrease the game's performance.
Yes.
If you have a Retina display, you will be able to take advantage of the extra pixels by running Life Is Strange in native resolution. This means that the game will display one pixel for every pixel on your display.
To do this, follow these instructions:
From the Life Is Strange pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Select the largest resolution from the Resolution drop-down menu to play the game in native Retina resolution.
Click the Play button. The game will start in native Retina resolution.
NOTE: In many cases, increasing your game's resolution will impact upon its performance.
By default, music playing in iTunes will be paused when you start playing Life Is Strange.
To turn this feature off, follow the steps below:
Double-click on the Life Is Strange application icon. The pre-game Options window will appear.
Select the Extras tab.
Uncheck the Pause iTunes while playing Life Is Strange checkbox.
Select the Play button to start playing.
To turn this feature back on at a later date, simply check the Pause iTunes while playing Life Is Strange checkbox and then select the Play button.
Your saved games are stored in your game's preferences folder.
To open this folder, click the Open Preferences Folder button in the Support tab of the pre-game Options window.
To take screenshots while playing Life Is Strange you should use the following key command:
Command (⌘) + Shift (⇧) + 3
When you press all three keys at once, a single image of the on-screen contents will be saved in the Feral Interactive folder in your computer's ~/Pictures folder (the "~" symbol refers to your home directory).
The JPEG image contains metadata in a string in the following format.
GameName/Version Number (OS Version; CPU Speed; Installed RAM; Video RAM; Current Graphics Card)
For example in Life Is Strange the string might look a little like this:
Life Is Strange/1.0 (macOS 10.15; 3.0; 8.0; 4.0; AMD Radeon R9 M395X)
This information can be easily removed by exporting the screenshot into a different format using Preview or another image editing tool.
NOTE: None of the metadata stored can be used to identify the user.
No. Life Is Strange has been tested with the basic formatting option for Mac OS X, which is HFS+. This system is not case-sensitive and identifies files by name without checking capitalization.
The capitalization of filenames is not consistent throughout the game. While this will not always prevent the game from running on case-sensitive file systems, it may lead to crashes and other unpredictable behaviour.
If you have to run a case-sensitive setup and you experience problems with Life Is Strange, please install the game on a standard formatted partition or read/write disk image. In most cases this will allow you to play the game on your machine.
There are several factors which have an impact on the speed at which Life Is Strange runs. Please see the Life Is Strange Performance Tips section in the ReadMe for ways to increase the speed at which the game runs on your computer.
Please read the technical support information in the ReadMe; this tells you what to check and if necessary, how to contact Feral Technical Support with your issue.