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8. Life Is Strange: Episode 1

The aforementioned Telltale template for narrative-focussed titles has mostly been confined to their own studio, but developer Dontnod's first foray into this sort of thing is actually a remarkably unique one. Already a fan of memory manipulation and time-bending concepts through Remember Me, LiS sees you playing as Maxine Caulfield, a seemingly innocent student who discovers she has the ability to rewind time - making for the perfect answer to Telltale and Mass Effect's problem of not realising the ramifications of what your choices were actually going to have. As the whole thing is set inside a high school with you trying to figure out (initially) whether a nightmarish scenario where Max is stranded was a vision of the future or just a dream, you're otherwise free to Bernard's Watch your way through, doing everything from innocently sitting through lectures only to rewind time and know all the answers to preventing a student from getting killed and kickstarting the story proper.