Square Enix only published Life is Strange after a failed pitch for another game

Life is Strange is one of the year’s most acclaimed storytelling games, but it nearly didn’t get made.

French developer Dontnod Entertainment was pitching another project to pubisher Square Enix, and the meeting didn’t go so well. In the aftermath of the failed pitch, Dontnod fortuitously showed off Life is Strange, and a partnership was born. Dontnod — previously responsible for the third-person action title Remember Me — was experiencing financial troubles at the time, reports MCV, and Life is Strange might never have happened but for that spontaneous meeting of minds.