Life Eater

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Our Next Game About the Game Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator. Play as a modern-day druid living in suburbia, holding down a dead-end job to pay for your true vocation: conducting the annual ritual that keeps the world from ending.

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Release date:
16 April 2024
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Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (276)
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About the Game

Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator. Play as a modern-day druid living in suburbia, holding down a dead-end job to pay for your true vocation: conducting the annual ritual that keeps the world from ending.

To delay the end of the world, you must sacrifice a number of specific - but vaguely-described - human beings every year. Use a video editing-inspired interface to discover the story of your victims' lives, one schedule block at a time. Pry into the most intimate details of your targets' schedules, and when the time is right: abduct them before the authorities can find your lair. Time is short and your list of names is long. Choose your options wisely... and pray that the dark god you serve is even real.

Features:

  • Use an innovative "timeline" interface for a new kind of analog horror game.
  • Get to know the unsuspecting targets of your town, intimately.
  • Replayable blend of authored and generated stories.
  • Fully voiced story mode featuring Xalavier Nelson Jr. and Jarret Griffis.
  • Original atmospheric soundscape from David Mason, the composer of DREDGE.
  • An additional Endless mode, featuring decades of procedurally-generated targets.

Recommended system requirements

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OS:
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor:
Quad-core Intel or AMD 2.5 GHz or superior
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Any DirectX 11 or 12 compatible card
Storage:
2 GB available space

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User reviews

Dark-Ra
Not recommended | 12 Feb 2026
30 min played

A kinda underwhelming puzzle and resource management game. It feels like you can figure out the target too easy and get all the information you need with little risk of running out of time. That and the gameplay isn't too interesting. Just taking levels of risk which when optimized boils down to spending the more available resource. A shame too because its an interesting premise and story. The game also feels really

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xxadonisxx
Recommended | 14 Feb 2026
12.6h played

Life Eater is a psychological horror strategy game developed by Strange Scaffold and published in partnership with Frosty Pop that distinguishes itself immediately through its unsettling premise and experimental structure. Rather than placing players in the role of a survivor or investigator, the game casts you as Ralph, a man bound to serve an ancient, otherworldly entity named Zimforth. Each year, in order to

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Zozoebug
Recommended | 16 Dec 2025
3.4h played

It's such an interesting idea that I loved getting to play through despite the inherent brutality of such a premise. It's good to play to completion for one long sitting or in multiple smaller ones, as it only took me a few hours. Requires attention to detail, mild investigation skills, and patience. Got a bit emotional at the end. Highly recommend!

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