Not even a minute in and it crashes straight after the Square Enix logo when playing lmao...

Specifically the crash will happen when Max has her first monologue. Two things happen :

Either your screen freezes but you can hear audio and music in the background
Game just crashes.

EDIT :

For everyone who has this problem , i just finished playing it and what i did was :

Restart the game ,
Change graphics options to whatever then reverted back to default
Ran as admin

Works perfectly for me ,


Second Edit :

I would also like to add that my Avast antivirus flagged the .exe as suspicious and i had to add it to exceptions.



POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS :

- Change the save file slot you're playing in before launching the game
- Lock FPS to 60 (or 30)
- Run the game in Windowed Mode
- Add -single-instance to the game's launch options in Steam.
- Validate the games cache integrity
- Reinstall the DLC
- Add Life is Strange to your Antivirus Whitelist (worked for AVG and Bitdefender)
- Reset Graphics to Default
- Spam the ESC key right as the crash occurs
- Delete any language translations if you have any.
- Picking the option on the right of the first choice
- Add -windowed to the game's launch options in Steam
- Disable subtitles in game


Third EDIT : Seems a lot of people get it to work by disabling subtitles. Recommend that to be the first thing you should try.