Life is Strange: Reunion Launches March 26 as Max and Chloe Return for an Emotional Finale
Deck Nine Games has officially announced Life is Strange: Reunion, positioning it as the emotional conclusion to Max Caulfield and Chloe Price’s long running story arc. The new entry is set to launch on March 26, 2026, and it continues directly from the reality bending fallout of Life is Strange: Double Exposure, bringing both longtime fans and newer players into a high stakes mystery built around time manipulation, trauma, and choice driven consequence.
The setup returns players to Caledon University, where Max is now working as a photography teacher. After returning from a weekend away, she finds the campus consumed by a catastrophic fire that kills friends, students, and faculty. Max survives only because of her Rewind power, and by jumping back through a selfie, she has 3 days to uncover what caused the blaze and stop it before the timeline locks in tragedy.
The narrative twist that will dominate community discussion is Chloe’s arrival at Caledon, framed as a consequence of Max’s timeline merging events from Double Exposure. Chloe is described as haunted by nightmares of a past she never lived, with her grip on reality fraying, forcing the pair into a tense reunion where the emotional stakes are as dangerous as the mystery itself.
From a gameplay perspective, Reunion’s standout differentiator is that players can control both Max and Chloe in the same game, alternating between their perspectives as the story unfolds. Max brings the franchise defining Rewind mechanic for undoing and redoing choices, reshaping conversations, and manipulating the environment to solve puzzles that lean into time as a system rather than a scripted gimmick. Chloe returns with her Backtalk ability, using her attitude and instincts to pressure suspects and reach places Max cannot, giving the investigation a two pronged approach that should help pacing and replay value.
Life is Strange: Reunion is available for pre order on PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, plus PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. The Standard Edition is priced at 39.99$. The Deluxe Edition is 49.99$ and includes the full game plus a digital mini soundtrack, digital art book, digital comic, and an exclusive behind the scenes documentary featuring actors Hannah Telle as Max and Rhianna DeVries as Chloe. A Twin Pack edition is priced at 59.99$ and bundles the latest 2 games in their standard versions.
For collectors, there is a 99.99$ Collector’s Edition available only through the Square Enix Store, featuring a collector’s goods box and sleeve with exclusive artwork by Ilya Kuvshinov, a 12 inch vinyl soundtrack with 12 songs pressed on an orange EcoRecord, a double sided Drugstore Makeup poster sized 24 inches by 12 inches, a Rewind symbol felt slipmat, 3 custom double sided guitar plectrums with 6 designs, and 3 Polaroid art cards celebrating Max and Chloe. North America also has an option that excludes the game itself.
If Deck Nine sticks the landing, Reunion has the potential to be the rare finale that feels like payoff rather than fan service, especially now that the series is finally letting Max and Chloe share the spotlight as co leads in a full length release.
Are you excited to play as both Max and Chloe in the same story, or do you worry a finale built on timeline merging risks undermining your choices from earlier games?
