Life is strange devs doing damage control

They also had very little faith in the project, with the former lead writer saying "I fricking hate this game," more than once in public meetings. They also almost never played the build while writing the game, leading to very detached decision making. To their credit, the narrative team was mostly women, and Deck Nine is, well, Deck Nine. So I'm not sure how much space they had for anything but survival and support of each other.

What.

What is this game even? Is it a visual novel? I don't care to Google it.