In Tell Me Why you play as twins Alyson and Tyler, the latter of who is transgender. The other commonality in Dontnod’s adventures is that the protagonists are always from a marginalised group, giving leading roles to the sort of characters that almost never get a look-in when it comes to mainstream video games. It may simply be the fact that this is an Xbox exclusive, as otherwise the set-up is almost identical: young adults discover they have superpowers (telepathy in this case) and rather than donning a cape and fighting crime they attempt to solve their own much more personal problems. Given how little connection there was between Life Is Strange 1 and 2 we’re not sure why this wasn’t just called Life Is Strange 3. Tell Me Why continues that journey, while being even more progressive in terms of plot and characters. From their earliest days with Remember Me they’ve been fascinated with the subject, even as they’ve become best known for Life Is Strange and their, in many ways superior, take on the Telltale adventure format. Somebody at French developer Dontnod is really obsessed with the concept of memory and how we are our own unreliable narrator. The new game from the makers of Life Is Strange features gaming’s most prominent transgender character and a murder mystery in rural Alaska. Tell Me Why – the truth is not what you might remember (pic: Microsoft)