Prime Video is picking up one video game after another to bring to television, and Life Is Strange is the latest game joining those ranks.
Technically, Legendary Digital Studios and publisher Square Enix announced their plans to adapt a show in 2016, with Shawn Mendes later attached as a producer and potentially coming to Hulu. Rights for the adventure game series have pivoted to Prime Video, who’ve enlisted Charlie Covell, who wrote Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World and Kaos, as showrunner and executive producer.
Developed by DontNod and Deck Nine, Life Is Strange is a series of adventure games about young adults who discover they have different superpowers. The original game released in 2015 and focused on Max, who used her power of rewinding time to investigate the death of her friend Rachel.
While 2024’s Double Exposure returned to Max, other entries have focuse on telekinetic Daniel Diaz and empath Alex Chen. Most games in the series have been episodic; all have branching narratives that let players make different choices involving the central and supporting cast that lead to different scenarios and endings.
The only people not involved are the creators. https://t.co/xSqOXlmYPv
— Christian Divine (@Chris_divine) September 5, 2025
Here’s the awkward part, though: according to Christian Devine, who co-wrote the first two Life Is Strange games and the Captain Spirit spinoff, the show wouldn’t involve the game’s creators. DontNod left the series after Spirit and Strange 2 in 2018, leaving Deck Nine in charge going forward, which has had its own separate controversies. It’s a rare moment in this recent video game adaptation boom where a developer’s explicitly called out their lack of involvement here—Fallout famously has Bethesda figurehead Todd Howard as EP, and the same’s true of BioWare producer Mike Gamble for the upcoming Mass Effect series.
We’ll learn more about this Life Is Strange show, including if it’ll adapt a specific entry, as it develops.
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