Life is Strange: Double Exposure being ported to Switch by Engine Software

Life is Strange: Double Exposure was announced for Switch on the very same day it was revealed, but in a rather odd way. The game’s trailer didn’t include the Switch logo, and the official website didn’t list it either. It was only discovered that the title was coming to Switch through the description on the official YouTube trailer, which certainly gave people concern about the port’s viability.

While Square Enix followed that confusing reveal with another confirmation of Life is Strange: Double Exposure for Switch via press release, people continued to be concerned about the quality of the project. Now we finally have reason to rest easy, as a very talented team is behind the port, and they’ve done an absolute ton of work for Switch over the years.

Square Enix has revealed that Engine Software is the studio handling Life is Strange: Double Exposure for Switch. As the game uses the Lumen and Nanite aspects of the Unreal Engine 5, and those simply don’t work on Switch. That means Engine Software has had to go in and complete relight the game with baked-in lighting versus dynamic, and this obviously takes quite a bit of time.

As to Engine Software’s pedigree, they’ve worked on a laundry list of high-quality Switch ports. The team has tackled titles like Ni no Kuni, Little Nightmares I & II, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, and most recently Shadows of the Damned Hella Remastered just to name a few. With their expertise on Switch, the port of Life is Strange: Double Exposure should be in very capable hands.

Everyone is hiding something, and in Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Max has the perfect power to solve this mystery as she probes her way through these two increasingly divergent timelines, with the determination to reach the truth at all costs! The fate of her friends, and of two timelines, are at your fingertips.

In Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Max Caulfield, photographer-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon University, discovers her closest new friend, Safi, dead in the snow. Murdered. To save her, Max tries to Rewind time – a power she’s not used in years… instead Max opens the way to a parallel timeline where Safi is still alive, and still in danger! Max realizes the killer will soon strike again – in both versions of reality. Only Max can Shift between the two parallel timelines to solve and prevent the same murder.

We still don’t have a release date for the Switch version of Life is Strange: Double Exposure. All we know for sure is that the title will arrive sometime after Oct. 15th, 2024.