Life Is Strange: Double Exposure ending spoilers follow.
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure sees Max Caulfield's long-awaited return to the series, and though some threads – like the mystery over Safi's death – were resolved, others were left open to set up a potential sequel.
Safi, who has shapeshifter-like abilities, loses control of her powers in her rage which leads to the life-threatening storm. She also shoots her mother Yasmin in the shoulder.
Max doesn't go through with killing Safi, and helps Safi and the people at Caledon University through the ordeal as the 'Dead' and 'Living' timelines combine.
Max is then faced with a final decision. Safi is someone who sees her supernatural powers as a gift, revelling in and even abusing them at times. Showing little regard for her wounded mother, she says she wants to leave Caledon and find more people with powers, inviting Max to join her.
Whether Max rejects or accepts Safi's offer, the epilogue sees Max speaking to her other friends and acquaintances at Caledon University, as they try to process what happened with Safi as well as having two sets of memories from the two timelines.
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The very last scene hints that Diamond may discover a power of her own, as she is approached by Safi.
Deck Nine narrative director Felice Kuan explained to Digital Spy that the team wanted to explore the ethics of using superpowers, and suggested that they're "very, very interested" in exploring this topic further in a potential sequel.
"The other Life Is Strange games – especially the first one with Max – allow the player to do a number of things that, spun it differently, could be considered villainous, and Max absolutely has a fraught relationship with this," she said.
"And I think any time we have a realistic examination of supernatural powers in a grounded, emotional world, the question of what is or isn't moral, what is and isn't the right of somebody, and are these powers to be used or not to be used will come up."
Kuan continued: "A key thing we were so excited to do with this particular group of characters is that all the people in the mundane part of the mystery are in some way, every single one of them, marginalised or limited in what they can do.
"And Safi is coming out of that environment as perhaps the only person who can look at the range of choices available to her – or at least the choices that she perceives available to her – and use her powers to do something that they can't.
"So, we are very, very interested in exploring – not only for Safi but also for Max and anybody else that we might tackle again – what further ramifications of power in someone's life and what are the true moral boundaries when you are talking about something that transcends the normal abilities."
Though the ending seemed to all but confirm there are plans for a sequel in some form, nothing is official yet.
"As much as we wanted Double Exposure to be an all-encompassing one-stop shop in terms of a fantastic story and a bunch of catharsis for Max, there are also a great many seeds planted that would be interesting to explore if we were given the chance," game director Jonathan Stauder said, when asked about plans for the potential sequel.
Hannah Telle, the actor who plays Max, said it "would be incredible" if she had the opportunity to reprise her famous role again.
Kuan added: "There are many, many directions we could go... It remains a priority that any deeper exploration of supernatural or any combination of them remains very grounded in realistic emotion and has some core relevance to real-life issues."
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is out now on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. A Nintendo Switch version is also planned.
