Overview

• Life Is Strange: Double Exposure won the Social Impact award at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards, recognizing its narrative significance.
• No representatives from Deck Nine Games were initially present to accept the award due to repeated layoffs following the game's poor sales.
• Former team members attending GDC independently later collected the award offstage, highlighting the industry's financial instability.
• Deck Nine Games, the studio behind the game, faced significant job cuts, including its narrative team, after the game's commercial underperformance.
• The future of the Life Is Strange franchise remains unclear, though Deck Nine had previously hinted at plans for its continuation.