‘Life is Unusual’ TV Collection Coming to Prime Video

Prime Video is selecting up one online game after one other to deliver to tv, and Life Is Unusual is the newest sport becoming a member of these ranks.

Technically, Legendary Digital Studios and writer Sq. Enix introduced their plans to adapt a present in 2016, with Shawn Mendes later connected as a producer and doubtlessly coming to Hulu. Rights for the journey sport sequence have pivoted to Prime Video, who’ve enlisted Charlie Covell, who wrote Netflix’s The Finish of the F***ing World and Kaos, as showrunner and govt producer.

Developed by DontNod and Deck 9, Life Is Unusual is a sequence of journey video games about younger adults who uncover they’ve completely different superpowers. The unique sport launched in 2015 and targeted on Max, who used her energy of rewinding time to research the dying of her buddy Rachel.

Whereas 2024’s Double Publicity returned to Max, different entries have focuse on telekinetic Daniel Diaz and empath Alex Chen. Most video games within the sequence have been episodic; all have branching narratives that allow gamers make completely different selections involving the central and supporting solid that result in completely different situations and endings.

The one folks not concerned are the creators. https://t.co/xSqOXlmYPv

— Christian Divine (@Chris_divine) September 5, 2025

Right here’s the awkward half, although: in line with Christian Devine, who co-wrote the primary two Life Is Unusual video games and the Captain Spirit spinoff, the present wouldn’t contain the sport’s creators. DontNod left the sequence after Spirit and Unusual 2 in 2018, leaving Deck 9 in cost going ahead, which has had its personal separate controversies. It’s a uncommon second on this latest online game adaptation increase the place a developer’s explicitly referred to as out their lack of involvement right here—Fallout famously has Bethesda figurehead Todd Howard as EP, and the identical’s true of BioWare producer Mike Gamble for the upcoming Mass Impact sequence.

We’ll study extra about this Life Is Unusual present, together with if it’ll adapt a particular entry, because it develops.

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