
What would you do if one day you discovered you had a supernatural power? This is the question the Life is Strange series has asked and explored time and again, beginning with the first game centering on Max Caulfield as she juggled the highs and lows of adolescence with the power to rewind time. Now, Life is Strange Double Exposure revisits Max as a character for the first time (in a game, anyway) – and she might be older and wiser, but the question is more pertinent than ever. The distressing events of Arcadia Bay – that had her grappling with her own morals surrounding a murder plot, and more tragedy besides – are never far from her mind, and after seeing what the consequences can be for using or not using a supernatural ability, this question is once again put at the forefront when Max discovers her powers have changed.
As she faces another tragedy when her close friend Safi is murdered in the new setting of Caledon University, her rewind power alters. No longer able to hold down a trigger to reverse time, it now allows her to simply Shift between parallel timelines. Discovering what happened to Safi and trying to find out if there's a way to prevent it becomes the main driving force behind the story of Life is Strange Double Exposure.