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50 free Life is Strange trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Life Is Strange began in 2015 as a small episodic adventure about a photography student who finds she can rewind time, and it grew into one of gaming's best-loved series. Its games swap guns and boss fights for conversations, hard choices and consequences that players still argue about years later. This quiz covers the whole series: Max and Chloe's week in Arcadia Bay, the prequel Before the Storm, the Diaz brothers' road trip in Life Is Strange 2, Alex Chen's arrival in Haven Springs in True Colors, and Max's return in Double Exposure. Expect questions on the characters and their powers, the key plot turns and endings, and the studios, cast and soundtracks behind the games. The opening questions suit anyone who has finished the first game, while later ones reward fans who have played every entry. Every answer comes with a short explanation. Spoilers for all the games are everywhere, endings included, so finish them first.
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Q 01Max Caulfield's surname in Life Is Strange is a nod to the teenage protagonist of which American novel?
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye gave Max her surname, borrowed from J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The writers echoed his rebel streak in Max, an introvert who feels like an outsider in her own town.
Q 02Which publisher backed Life Is Strange without asking its makers to swap Max Caulfield for a male lead?
Square Enix
Square Enix was the only publisher that never questioned a female lead, the developers said. Most others they approached would not sign the game unless Max became a boy.
Q 03What does Max Caulfield photograph in a school restroom just before her power awakens in Life Is Strange?
A butterfly
A butterfly is her subject, snapped seconds before a shooting a few feet away triggers her first rewind. The picture returns in the finale as her one way to undo the whole week.
Q 04In Life Is Strange, Max Caulfield's classroom vision shows which disaster bearing down on Arcadia Bay?
A tornado
A tornado rips toward the town in her vision. Strange weather and other anomalies then build all week, and Max comes to blame her own choice to save Chloe for the storm.
Q 05Which missing friend of Chloe Price do she and Max Caulfield spend Life Is Strange trying to find?
Rachel Amber
Rachel Amber had been missing for several months when the story begins. The prequel, set three years earlier, shows how she and Chloe first became close.
Q 06Chloe Price is recognised across the Life Is Strange series by her dyed hair of which colour?
Blue
Blue is so tied to Chloe that characters in Double Exposure call her the blue-haired girl, after a picture Max keeps in her wallet.
Q 07In Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Chloe Price reluctantly steps into a school staging of which Shakespeare play?
The Tempest
The Tempest loses a cast member to road closures, so Chloe goes on as the sprite Ariel. Game Informer named the scene 2017's most touching moment in an adventure game.
Q 08Which supernatural power does nine-year-old Daniel Diaz develop at the start of Life Is Strange 2?
Telekinesis
Telekinesis bursts out of Daniel as an explosion the moment his father is killed. Sean, sixteen, then has to teach him when to use it, and those lessons decide the ending.
Q 09In Life Is Strange: True Colors, Alex Chen's psychic power lets her see what as coloured auras around people?
Their emotions
Their emotions glow as auras, and strong ones can infect Alex herself. That cost is why she hides the gift from everyone and thinks of it as a curse.
Q 10Which Blackwell Academy staff member is exposed in Life Is Strange as the man abducting and photographing students?
Mark Jefferson
Mark Jefferson, Max's admired photography teacher, is the predator. He had taken a wealthy student on as a protégé, which is why the trail first points at the boy.
Q 11Arcadia Bay, the fictional coastal town at the heart of Life Is Strange, lies in which US state?
Oregon
Oregon was settled on after the French team picked the Pacific Northwest for its nostalgic, autumnal feel. They visited the region, took photographs and studied local newspapers to get the town right.
Q 12Which wealthy Blackwell Academy student shoots Chloe Price in the opening episode of Life Is Strange?
Nathan Prescott
Nathan Prescott pulls the trigger, and the shock is what first lets Max rewind time. He is the son of the town's wealthy, influential family, who also own the barn hiding the story's worst secret.
Q 13Why was Chloe Price recast for Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, with her first actress only consulting?
Q 21Beside which Arcadia Bay landmark does Chloe Price hand Max the photo for the final choice of Life Is Strange?
The lighthouse
The lighthouse on the cliff is where the week ends, and it is the first thing Max sees destroyed in her opening vision. Chloe herself argues that the town's people deserve to live more than she does.
Q 22In the Life Is Strange ending that sacrifices Arcadia Bay, what does Max do with the photo that could undo it?
Tears it up
Max tears it up, so there is no way back, and the two friends watch the storm wreck the town before leaving its ruins the next morning. Use the photo instead and the whole week is erased, Chloe included.
Q 23At which Arcadia Bay diner, where Chloe Price's mother Joyce works, do she and Max meet in Life Is Strange?
A voice actors' strike
A voice actors' strike kept the original Chloe out of the booth, so her motion-capture performer took over the voice. Once it ended, the first actress returned for the bonus episode Farewell.
Q 14Which actress, who also auditioned to play Max, voiced Chloe Price in the original Life Is Strange?
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch read for both leads before landing Chloe. The part won her the Golden Joystick for Performance of the Year in 2015 and a BAFTA nomination.
Q 15Which Life Is Strange episode, the fourth of five, is named after the bunker hidden beneath a barn?
Dark Room
Dark Room is both the episode and the bunker itself, where students were drugged and photographed. One reviewer judged it easily the most emotional episode of the season.
Q 16In Life Is Strange, Max travels back through a childhood photo to stop William Price dying in what way?
A car crash
A car crash killed Chloe's father years before the story begins. Saving him only moves the tragedy: in the new reality William lives, but Chloe has been paralysed in a different collision.
Q 17Which Paris studio made Life Is Strange after the poor sales of its debut game Remember Me forced a rethink?
Dontnod
Dontnod, now styled Don't Nod, was in financial trouble when it shrank its ambitions to a small episodic game. Its chief executive later said Life Is Strange saved the company.
Q 18Sean and Daniel Diaz spend Life Is Strange 2 trying to reach their father's hometown, Puerto Lobos, in which country?
Mexico
Mexico is the goal, and the brothers travel the length of the US West Coast as fugitives to get there. Only one of the four endings sees both of them settle in Puerto Lobos together.
Q 19Which bullied Blackwell Academy student can Max either save or lose on the dormitory roof in Life Is Strange?
Kate Marsh
Kate Marsh can be talked down or lost, depending on what Max says. The developers consulted experts on the subject, and PlayStation Official Magazine honoured the scene in its Best Moment category for 2015.
Q 20Which American studio made the Life Is Strange prequel and later took over the series from its French creators?
Deck Nine
Deck Nine had spent years as Idol Minds, making sports and party games for PlayStation, before rebranding in 2017 to tell stories. It went on to make True Colors, Double Exposure and Reunion.
Two Whales
Two Whales is the diner, and it returns in Max's final nightmare, filled with frozen figures of everyone she knows begging to be spared. In the comics, Chloe later rebuilds it.
Q 24In one reality of Life Is Strange, Max flies with Principal Wells to see her photo hang in which city's gallery?
San Francisco
San Francisco is where her winning shot is exhibited. She phones Chloe from the gallery, learns the storm has struck anyway, and jumps back through the photo to try again.
Q 25Which Blackwell Academy student society throws the End of the World party late in Life Is Strange?
The Vortex Club
The Vortex Club hosts it, and Max and Chloe go there hunting a suspect. An earlier Vortex Club party is where a classmate was filmed while apparently drugged, the video behind her bullying.
Q 26What kind of home belonging to drug dealer Frank Bowers do Max and Chloe sneak into in Life Is Strange?
A motorhome
A motorhome is where Frank lives, and what the pair find inside shows he had a secret romance with their missing friend. The discovery leaves Chloe feeling betrayed.
Q 27After breaking into the principal's office at night in Life Is Strange, what do Max and Chloe do next?
Swim in the school pool
Swim in the school pool is the unlikely answer: the investigation pauses for a midnight dip, until security turns up and the pair have to flee to Chloe's house.
Q 28Under which working title, dropped because a film already used it, was Life Is Strange first developed?
What If
What If was the codename, a fair summary of a game about undoing choices. Development had begun in April 2013 with a team of just 15 people.
Q 29Jonathan Morali, who composed the score for Life Is Strange, fronts which French indie band from Paris?
Syd Matters
Syd Matters takes its name from two Pink Floyd members, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. Two of the band's own songs play in the game, and Morali came back to score Life Is Strange 2.
Q 30Sean and Daniel Diaz go on the run in Life Is Strange 2 after their father Esteban is shot dead by whom?
A police officer
A police officer passing by fires on Esteban as he arrives at a scuffle between Sean and a neighbour. Seconds later a sudden explosion rocks the street, and the brothers run.