Life is Strange hits 1m copies sold

Episodic narrative-led title Life is Strange has passed the 1m sales mark.

Publisher Square Enix said it was incredibly proud” and hailed the number as a huge achievement for the small team working on the game”.

The game was released in January, with a Season Pass for all five episodes costing 15.99. The fourth episode in the series, dubbed ‘Darkroom’, will be released on July 28th.

In January Dontnod said that the Japanese publisher is the only company that would agree to publish the game with its female lead character unchanged.

"Square is basically the only publisher who didn’t want to change a single thing about the game," creative director Jean-Maxime Morissaid. "We had other publishers telling us to make it a male lead character, and Square didn’t even question that once."