Originally Posted by Square Enix
The moment many of you have been waiting for. Life is Strange 2 is getting a physical release on Xbox One, PS4 and PC!
It’s a fantastic way to begin and remember your journey forever - in tangible form sitting very attractively on your shelf, as all good mementos do! It’s also a great way to introduce your friends and family to the long, emotive road to Puerto Lobos. How will your journeys compare?
The physical release will be available December 3rd, 2019 in Europe, and February 4th, 2020 in the Americas. It will come in two flavours – the Life is Strange 2 Standard Edition and the Life is Strange 2 Collector’s Edition.
The Standard Edition is priced at £34.99/€39.99/$39.99 and will contain:
· The Complete Season - Episodes 1-5 of Life is Strange 2
· Bonus Game - The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
· Arcadia Bay Patches - These items let you customize Sean’s in-game backpack!
The Collector’s Edition is priced at £64.99/€69.99/$69.99, and will contain:
· The Complete Season - Episodes 1-5 of Life is Strange 2
· Bonus Game: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
· Arcadia Bay Patches
· Jonathan Morali’s official score - 4x 7 inch Vinyl Box Set featuring the game’s amazing original music
· 32-page hardcover artbook - featuring concept art from Life is Strange 2
· 4 inch/10cm Sean and 3 inch/8cm Daniel vinyl figurines
· Collector’s Edition presentation box
The Collector’s Edition will be exclusive to the Square Enix Store, and available to the UK, Europe and the Americas on the dates mentioned previously.
And to address the Mantroid in the room – the different release dates. It’s nothing personal, we love you all equally.
Different countries have different requirements when it comes to rating the content on the discs, and in some cases, this means that a game (or Episode) can’t be rated until it’s complete and submitted, even if it’s not on the disc, which is why the game will be releasing later in the Americas.
We wanted the physical edition to be available on the same date as the digital release of Episode 5 on December 3rd – so Episodes 1 to 4 are on the disc, and Episode 5 will be supplied as a download on all platforms. The complete game clocks in at around 65GB of content, and Xbox and PS4 discs top out at 50GB of capacity, which means that Episode 5 will always be a download in every territory, including the Americas.
With Life is Strange 2 we understand that some players may have been waiting for the final episode to release before diving into the game, and that in an ideal world, those holding out for the physical release wouldn’t want to wait longer than those playing digitally.
We wanted to give as many people as possible the opportunity to choose between a digital and physical box full season release on December 3rd, but for the reasons touched on above, we aren’t able to provide a simultaneous release in every territory.
The only alternative was to push every release date back to February 4th, 2020. As Life is Strange fans, you’ll know that struggling with hard choices is at the core of what we do – this was one we agonised over!
In the end, we decided a split release was the best way to give the most players the widest amount of choice. For those of you in the Americas who are already playing digitally, or who have been waiting for the game’s full release on digital platforms before diving in, have no fear: the upcoming Season Finale will launch digitally everywhere on December 3rd.
Life is Strange 2 is available to buy digitally on Xbox One, PS4 and Steam. Physical boxed editions are available to pre-order now, from BuyLiS2.com. Additional retailer links will be added to this page as they go live.
We’re approaching the end of the Life is Strange 2 road, but there’s still so much to see before your choices lead you to your grand finale!
The Life is Strange team
