My first memories of playing Life is Strange resides within the hazy window of my early University years, sitting in the living room of my student house and skipping lectures with my housemate in order to play the next episode together.
I didn’t know in 2015 how formative these moments would be.
For the first time in a game (aside from, like, Spyro the Dragon and The Sims) I felt I was a part of a community for a game that was made with me in mind. As a queer woman of colour, anything close to that feeling is decidedly fair and far between. It was sensitive, nuanced, introspective, and beautiful; with two ostensibly queer women at the helm.