We’re thrilled to have lastly revealed the subsequent sport in the Life is Unusual sequence, Life is Unusual: Double Exposure!
It’s been deeply rewarding to work on, and we will’t wait for you to dive deeper into the supernatural homicide thriller we’ve been engaged on for over 4 years. And long-time followers shall be thrilled to know that our authentic star, Max Caulfield, is making a return.
When Max was an eighteen year-old images pupil, she manifested the energy to rewind time and have become entangled in the darkish facet of Blackwell Academy, a highschool in the small city of Arcadia Bay.
In Life is Unusual: Double Exposure, we choose up a number of years later, discovering Max attempting to construct a new life for herself as an artist-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon College. Max has spent years on the highway photographing desolate areas, conserving everybody at a distance, as the selections of her previous nonetheless grasp heavy over her.
Caledon is the first place in years the place Max has felt the pull of group. She’s begun to succeed in out once more, to make associates and connections… after which all that’s torn away from her in a single evening, when she finds her new buddy, the poet Safi Llewellyn-Fayyad, useless in the snow.
Murdered.
Max’s shock quickly turns to confusion – Safi’s loss of life appears unimaginable, not simply in its suddenness, however in the lack of clues, of suspects; to not point out the indisputable fact that Max noticed her alive simply seconds earlier than.
As the days go, her shock turns to willpower to seek out the reality. That’s when she begins to listen to Safi’s voice. Reaching out, straining each supernatural sinew, Max tears a gap in actuality and passes via into a parallel timeline. Right here, Safi continues to be alive. And nonetheless in peril! Max is the just one who may have the ability to save her buddy.
She additionally discovers her energy, long-dormant, has modified. She will be able to now Shift backwards and forwards between two parallel timelines, every shifting ahead in sync. In a single timeline, Safi is useless, and her associates and the campus mourn. In the different, Safi could be very a lot alive, and Max is the just one who is aware of that a lethal menace stalks the faculty.
For the first time, gamers should clear up and forestall the identical homicide, whereas uncovering each secret that Caledon holds. As you may have the ability to inform, the friendship between Max and Safi is core to this new thriller. Let’s contact on a few key pictures from the trailer to delve into that a little extra…
Max is again! For the first time in practically a decade, gamers will take management of Max Caulfield – both once more, or for the very first time. Even if you happen to’re utterly new to Life is Unusual, you’ll get all the pieces you want on this story to grasp Max’s previous, and her emotional journey.
One in every of the issues that was most essential to us when crafting this story was that Safi wasn’t simply a plot machine, or a physique. The truth that she could be very a lot alive in one in every of the two timelines means she stays a vivid presence all through the sport. Discovering what makes her tick is simply as essential as discovering out who she could have ticked off.
With Safi nonetheless alive in a single timeline, Max additionally has entry to one thing no different detective has – the homicide sufferer: capable of reply all of her probing questions!
Max can be the solely particular person with the energy to Shift between the two timelines. Max can Shift at varied Shift Factors in the world – tender locations in actuality, the place the wall between the timelines is skinny. As she explores each timelines, the mysteries hold including up – however solely Max has the skill to get to the reality.
Max and Safi will want all of your assist when Life is Unusual: Double Exposure launches October 29 this yr – and people who pre-order the Final Version can play each Chapters 1 and a pair of from October 15!
And there’s nonetheless extra to come back this very week. We’ll showcase Max Caufield’s new journey in an in-depth Reveal Livestream this Thursday, June 13, at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST – together with a first take a look at prolonged gameplay, and an summary of Max’s new energy. Comply with us on X, Tiktok, Instagram, and Facebook to maintain updated with all the newest from the Life is Unusual universe.
We are able to’t wait to welcome you all into the snowy grounds of Caledon College, and place two timelines at your fingertips.