Life is Strange ending comes with the longest wait yet

The fifth and final episode of Life is Strange is almost complete and shooting for an October 20th launch, developer Dontnod E💛ntertainment has announced. Writing on the , Life is Strange producer Luc Baghadoust says the end is in sight for the warmly received adventure game, which follows a teenage girl coming to grips with the powers and inevitable fallout of time travel.

If October 20 feels unusually distant, you might think to blame the events of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Episode 4: The Dark Room, still hanging in memory, or the game's temporal shenanigans beginning to waꦏrp your own perception of time. But no, it really is taking longer and longer between each episode's release, with a whopping 84 days between Episode 4 and Episode 5's expected (and not guaranteed) release.

"Many things can change in the lead up to release but the team are working really hard to try and hit this date," Baghadoust writes. "We know the wait may be a bit longer than some of you were hoping for but we want toꦆ ensure Episode 5 is the best it can be. Your tweets, comments and messꩵages have kept us going through this busy stage of development and we can’t thank you enough for your continued support."

The inconsistent development time between episodes of Life is Strange is a clear sign that Dontnod, like nearly every other developer working in the episodic space today, is still trying t🥂o figure out the complex clockwork of multi-part game production. It's likely a constant struggle with maintaining a reasonable schedule, meeting the demands of the publisher and incorporating the feedback from players to improve the story aloꦚng the way.

If you've stuck with it all the way to the end, though, and despite the delays creeping in gradually since Janua🌺ry, then Life is Sꦐtrange must be doing something right.

Ludwig Kietzmann is a veteran video game journalist and former U.S. Editor-in-Chief for GamesRadar+. Before he held that position, Ludwig worked for sites like Engadget and Joystiq, helping to craft news and feature coverage. Ludwig left journalism behind in 2016 and is now an editorial director at Assembly Media, hel🐟ping to oversee editorial strategy and media relations for Xbox.