Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Episode #1: Awake

~Old Mill – Exterior~
• Watch Opening Cutscene
• Assume control of Chloe and head to the Old Mill
• Jump over the gate
• Examine the area
• Ponder at the Fire
• Examine RV

Graffiti #1: Meth Lab

• Old Mill – Exterior
• Head around behind the caravan
• Examine the center
• Graffiti
• Meth Lab

Choice #1: Firewalk Bouncer; {Minor}

• Talk to the Bouncer
• Look at Motorbike next to the Bouncer
• Talk to Bouncer Again

Backtalk Challenge #1: Bouncer

• Chloe: Your bedtime?
• Chloe: I don't do "cute".
• Chloe: This isn't a playground?
• Chloe: Flowers on your bike?
• Chloe: Bosses suck.
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~Old Mill – Interior~
• Pet the Pitbull

Choice #2: The T-Shirt Vendor's Money; {Minor}

• Talk to the T-Shirt Vendor
• Try to steal shirt
• Examine no parking sign
• Pull the hand break
• Release Handbreak
• Take shirt
• Steal money too

Graffiti #2: Evil Eye

• Head over to Saw Blade
• Graffiti
• Evil Eye

Choice #3: Spilled Drink

• Try to enter the mosh pit to the left
• Chloe is pushed back and she spills Skeevy’s Drink
• Chloe apologizes to Skeevy

Choice #4: Frank's Weed; {Minor}

• Head to the stairs next to the entrance
• To the right is a man sitting on a couch
• This is Frank (Your drug dealer Shhhh….)
• Talk to Frank
• Ask him about the guy you pissed off
• Don’t buy Weed

Choice #5: Conflict with the Skeevy Guys; {Major}

• Head upstairs
• Chloe enjoys herself for a bit dancing to the music
• Skeevy comes looking for trouble
• Apologize, Try to Walk Away, & Insult
• Rachel comes to save the day
• Run Away
• Enjoy the rest of the scene
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~Price House~

• Chloe is Smoking
• Get up
• Look at journal
• Look at photo
• Joyce calls for Chloe to wake up
• Look at class picture next to computer
• Look at Computer

Graffiti #3: 100% of the Shots…

• Head over to Fantasy (Unicorn) Poster
• Tear Down
• Graffiti
• Pick 100% of the Shots…

Choice #6: Outfit

• Head over to Dresser Draws to change
• Select outfit
• Outfit #1 Butterfly,
• Outfit #2 Illuminati (Bonus Outfit)
• Outfit #3 Hawt Dawg Man (Bonus Outfit)
• Outfit #4 Punk Doe (Bonus Outfit)
• Outfit #5 Raven
• Outfit #6 Classic Chloe (Bonus Outfits)
• Outfit #7 Firewalk
• Personally, I pick Firewalk (because why not)

Choice #7: Self-Help Book; {Minor}

• Leave Chloe’s room
• Head to Joyce’s Room
• Look at book on her night stand
• Read some of it

Choice #8: William's Photo; {Minor}

• Look around the room
• Examine Joyce’s engagement ring
• The ring is on the desk on the far side of the room
• Open Joyce’s draws
• Place photo on the dresser


• Ring Chloe’s phone with Joyce’s phone
• Joyce’s phone is on the other nightstand
• Find Chloe’s phone by following the ringing sound
• Don’t worry the ringing won’t stop unlike real phones lol
• Her phone is in the bathroom, next to the toilet under some dirty rags
• Check your phone/texts

Choice #9: Talking to Joyce; {Major}

• Grab Joyce’s purse and head down stairs
• Place purse on the dining table
• Head to the Kitchen and talk to Joyce
• Be Kind
• Chloe: Sorry, I’ll do better.
• Chloe: Maybe I just need to be left alone.
• Chloe: Dad was a good man
• Chloe: Be understanding

Choice #10: Give Joyce the Money; {Minor}

• Walk over to the Table
• Slip Joyce the stolen money


• Grab keys from the ashtray
• Head for the front door
• Get a text from Steph
• If you haven’t already look at your other texts
• Head outside

Graffiti #4: Intruder

• Head into the Garage
• Grab tool from the tool box
• Graffiti tool box
• Pick Intruder


• Talk to David a little
• Give David his tools
• Accept fist bump (do it for Joyce)
• On the car ride to school David will lecture you
• Chloe Shut. This. Down.

Backtalk Challenge #2: David

• Chloe: Military language
• Chloe: You're stupid.
• Chloe: Thought I smelled crap.
• Chloe: At least she has a heart.
• Chloe: You're not my father. {You’ll lose this round but it’s necessary}
• Chloe: You have no job.
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~Dream~

• Chloe dreams about driving with her dad
• Look at family photo (William has been replaced by David)
• Look at Socket Wrench
• Talk to William
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~Blackwell Academy~

• Chloe wakes up, and thanks David (sort of)
• We get a view of the school campus

Choice #11: Eliot's Invitation; {Minor}

• Chloe will run into Elliot who invites her to go to the play
• Chloe: Maybe…

Choice #12: Skip's Demo; {Minor}

• After the scene finished head to the left
• There you’ll see a janitor or something
• This is Skip, talk to him and he’ll tell you about his Demo
• Listen to Skip’s Demo
• Tell him you liked it

Graffiti #5: Firewalk Rawks or Principal Wells rawks

• Head down the path to the left
• Go past the makeshift stage
• Until you reach a building
• Head to the right side in the corner
• Graffiti
• Pick Firewalk Rawks

Choice #13: Tabletop Game; {Minor}

• Chloe checks her texts
• Steph tells Chloe where to meet her
• Head around the corner and have a smoke
• Chloe heads over to the Picnic tables
• Talk to Steph and Mikey
• Chloe: Try me.
• Chloe: We’re not friends
• Chloe: Sure
• The rest of the choices here don’t really matter to the overall story so just have some fun here

Backtalk Challenge #3: Dragonkin

• Dragons are pu*sies. {Lose this round but necessary}
• Could make you shorter.
• Pull out your stomach.

Choice #14: Victoria's Homework; {Minor}

• Leave the picnic table
• Head over to the Center
• Talk to Victoria
• Here you have the option to sabotage her homework
• Walk away

Choice #12: Nathan getting Bullied by Drew; {Major}

• Head inside the main school building
• Before Chloe enters the building Drew and Nathan arrive
• Drew is bullying Nathan
• Nathan’s friend tries to break up the fight
• Chloe Defends Nathan and initiates another Backtalk Challenge

Backtalk Challenge #4: Drew

• Chloe: Idiot?
• Chloe: Nathan's an easy target.
• Chloe: I'm crazy, that's true.
• Chloe: A piece of cake.


• Joyce texts Chloe
• Read your text messages
• Chloe heads inside
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~Drama Club~

Choice #13: The Tempest; {Minor}

• Rachel drags you to the drama club
• Rachel asks your opinion on a characters feelings
• Chloe at this stage in the story hasn’t really felt love so…
• Chloe: Miranda is stupid
• I feel Chloe would say this given her inexperience in the subject of love
• Watch the rest of the scene
• Head over and grab Rachel’s Belt

Graffiti #6:

• Head into the Dressing Room
• Head over to the Tempest Poster on the door
• Graffiti
• Pick Horns for Nathan
• It makes the most sense given Chloe can be pretty petty.
• And given she just saved his ass and he didn’t even thank us, yeah it works.

Choice #17: Rachel's Belt; {Minor}

• Head over to Rachel
• Bring her the belt
• You don’t wanna throw it in case it hits her
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~Train~
• Once on the train Elliot will text you
• Read the text

Graffiti #7: We are Monsters or Everyone lies

• Move Crate
• Examine the wall
• Graffiti
• Pick We are Monsters

Choice #18: Earbuds; {Minor}

• Sit down with Rachel
• Before you listen to music Rachel wants to have some fun
• She plays two truths and a lie, the lie Rachel says is where she was born
• Next is your turn, playing by the rules is the best way to go in my opinion
• Finally when there’s a lull in the conversation Chloe decides to listen to some music.
• Share you earbuds with Rachel
• This will increase your relationship with Amber which is important

Choice #19: Jump from the Train; {Minor}

• Chloe and Rachel talk for a bit more
• Rachel will tell Chloe to jump
• Jump and increase your relationship with Amber
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~Overlook~

Graffiti #8: Axe or Sextant

• Chloe and Rachel make their way up to the overlook
• Watch the scene
• Turn around and head to the Statue
• Graffiti
• Pick Sextant


• Next we need to help Rachel so let’s get on with it
• Head down the path and find the picnic bench next to the bin
• Keep heading down the path to overhear couple quarrel
• Examine the Viewfinder
• Talk to Rachel and get a nail file
• Head back to the picnic bench
• Use nail file to unscrew the dedication plate
• Head back to the viewfinder
• Use the dedication plate to remove viewfinder and receive the quarter
• Use it on the other viewfinder
• Use the viewfinder to find unsuspecting victims of your game
• Rachel sees a man approach a woman
• Rachel has a freak out and wants to get ♥♥♥♥ faced
• She pretends to faint in front of a couple
• Chloe tries to steal it but gets caught
• Chloe acts like a concerned citizen
• She initiates another backtalk challenge

Backtalk Challenge #5: Rachel

• Won't have to wait long.
• Watch her die?
• Unlock your potential.


• Chloe steals the wine
• Rachel and Chloe escape
• Both drink the wine and head off
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~Junkyard~

Choice #20: Relationship with Rachel; {Major}

• Time for the final big choice for this episode
• Chloe and Rachel are walking along the Train Tracks
• Chloe sees the Junkyard and thinks it’s awesome
• Rachel gets moody (for a good reason we just don’t know why yet)
• Chloe has a meltdown when Rachel brushes her off
• Rachel confronts Chloe about their relationship
• Chloe: More than Friends
• Rachel is speechless but leaves
• Chloe is heartbroken, and angry she starts smashing things

Graffiti #9: Paint

• Junkyard
• Head to the Pole with the Anime girl
• Smash it
• Smash the paint
• Examine paint splatter
• Graffiti


• Chloe keeps smashing things
• Chloe eventually comes across her dad’s car (or one that looks like it)
• It’s all smashed up from being hit by a truck
• Chloe breaks down in tears
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~Dream – Again~

• Chloe wakes up in her dream sitting in the back seat of her dad’s car
• William is driving while listening to music

Graffiti #10: Truth or Lie

• Examine the Tempest Poster on the back of the front seat
• Move Poster
• Graffiti
• Examine wine bottle
• Take marker
• Graffiti again
• Pick Truth

Now just watch the rest of the cutscenes and enjoy the end of episode 1.

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While this is how I chose to play there are other choices you can make through the playthrough if you want, here’s the choices you can make and their outcomes.

I didn’t did every little thing as not everything matters like how you respond in conversations usually it’s only one particular choice that matters the most so yeah but here are your alternate choices and outcomes
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Graffiti:

Graffiti is first this just changes what you draw so not a massive change it’s essentially the one you didn’t choose so here you go.

Graffiti #1: Free Candy
Graffiti #2: Spin
Graffiti #3: Genius is…
Graffiti #4: Box of ♥♥♥♥♥
Graffiti #5: Principal Wells rawks
Graffiti #6: Halo for Rachel
Graffiti #7: Everyone Lies
Graffiti #8: Sextant
Graffiti #9: There is no other choice
Graffiti #10: Lie
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Next is Minor choices, choices that will affect small things like if you don’t like Skip’s Demo or you don’t steal money from the T-Shirt Vendor, but anyway here you go.

Minor Choices:

Choice #1: Bouncer {WIP}

• Talk to the Bouncer the first time
• Instead of looking at his bike look at...

Choice #2: T-Shirt Vendors Money

• Talk to the T-Shirt Vendor
• Ignore him and leave

Choice #2: T-Shirt Vendors Money

• Talk to the T-Shirt Vendor
• Try and Steal the shirt
• Look at the No Parking Sign
• Release handbreak
• Steal Shirt
• Don’t steal Money


Choice #3: Spilled Drink

• Try to enter the Mosh Pit
• Spill drink on the Skeevy guy
• Blow him off


Choice #4: Buy Weed from Frank

• You can only do this if you steal money
• Steal money from the T-Shirt Vendor
• Talk to Frank
• Ask about Weed
• Buy Weed

Choice #5: Outfit

• This is just the outfit you decide to wear
• It doesn’t affect you at all
• Only difference is you wearing a different outfit

Choice #6: Money

• After talking with Joyce don’t slip her the money
• This will open up two other options
• Either A. Settle your debt with Frank
• David will ask you to empty your pockets next episode
• If you still

Choice #7: Backtalk Challenge

• On the ride to school David will start a lecture
• Instead of initiating the Backtalk Challenge just take the lecture

Choice #8: The Tempest Play

• Elliot will chase down Chloe and invite her to the play
• Chloe: Sound Awful
• I don’t think this changes anything much

Choice #9: Skip’s Demo

• Talk to skip and listen to his Demo
• This time have Chloe say “Meh.”
• It won’t affect the game in any meaningful way
• But if you get expelled Skip won’t be as supportive

Choice #10: Table Top Game

• Chloe talks to Steph & Mikey at school
• Steph will offer to join the Tabletop Game
• Pick either “No way.” or “Some other time.”

Choice #11: Victoria’s Homework

• When talking with Victoria she complains about her homework
• Sabotage her Homework this’ll be brought up a few times in the future

Choice #12: Love

• When asked if Chloe believes in love
• Chloe says she does believe in love and inspire a dram club kid

Choice #14: Earbuds

• While on the Train when Chloe decides to listen to music don’t share with Rachel
• This will of course mean your relationship with Rachel won’t improve so that sucks and also (RUDE!)

Choice #15: Train Jump

• While on the train and Rachel says Jump don’t jump
• This will again mean your relationship with Rachel won’t improve
• Rachel will also push you so it doesn’t affect the story in any meaningful way

That’s it for minor choices there are of course small choices like what to smash at the junkyard and what to say/do. But nothing of consequence happens after here.
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Finally the Major choices essentially the choices you are shown at the end of each episode the main one’s that impact the future story going forwards.

Major Choices:

Choice #1: Skeevy Conflict

• When Rachel saves you from the Skeevy Guys attack
• Rachel will help, but Chloe will end up with a Black eye
• It doesn’t matter too much but people will comment on it
• It’ll also open up an option to deepen your relationship with Rachel later

Choice #2: Be Mean to Joyce

• When talking to Joyce during breakfast be mean.
• Chloe: I was sleeping
• Chloe: Maybe David could help
• Chloe: David’s an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Chloe: Say what you feel

Choice #3: Drew Bullies Nathan

• When Nathan and Drew arrive Samantha will ask Chloe to help Nathan
• This time stay out of it and don’t interfere, you’ll miss the Backtalk Challenge though

Choice #4: Relationship with Rachel

• When Rachel and Chloe are having their fight Rachel prompts Chloe
• Rachel asks about their relationship, if Chloe says just friendship and their relationship is high enough she will be disappointed
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~Outro~

…and that’s it, I hope you enjoyed, I hope this was helpful to someone at least, this is just Episode #1 but I do plan to make guides for the other 3 Episodes. Yes I did say 3, because there is obviously Episode #2: and Episode #3: but there’s also a Bonus Episode set just before Max leaves/moves away.

So yeah, it’s been a while since I played that episode so it might not even need a guide if that’s the case I’ll correct myself but yeah until then that’s my plan, I also plan to do a Guide for Life is Strange Season 1, Season 2, True Colors, and the new one that just dropped. So yeah look forward to those.

If your reading this in the future and I have made those guides you should be able to find those episodes below.

BtS Ep.2: WIP
Bts Ep.3: WIP
Bts Ep.0: WIP

LiS Ep.1: WIP
LiS Ep.2: WIP
LiS Ep.3: WIP
LiS Ep.4: WIP
LiS Ep.5: WIP

Lis2 Ep.1: WIP
Lis2 Ep.2: WIP
Lis2 Ep.3: WIP
Lis2 Ep.4: WIP
Lis2 Ep.5: WIP

LiS3 Ep.1: WIP
LiS3 Ep.2: WIP
LiS3 Ep.3: WIP
LiS3 Ep.4: WIP
LiS3 Ep.5: WIP

LiS4 Ep.1: WIP
LiS4 Ep.2: WIP
LiS4 Ep.3: WIP
LiS4 Ep.4: WIP
LiS4 Ep.5: WIP