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Life Eater

Strange Scaffold · 2024-04-16

SteamGOG

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 379 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Life Eater is a 2024 video game developed by Strange Scaffold and published by Strange Scaffold and Frosty Pop for Windows. The game is a narrative horror puzzle game in which the player is a murderer that uses an interactive timeline to learn the routines and vulnerabilities of their victims. The game was concepted by independent developer Xalavier Nelson Jr, who aimed to create a "horror fantasy kidnapping simulator" that explored themes of surveillance in a fantasy horror context. Upon release, Life Eater received mixed reviews, with reviewers noting the impact and ambition of its premise, but expressing mixed views on the effect of its gameplay and narrative to execute its concept.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 18,004 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.6k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 379 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2026-04-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 23 of 45 observed days · $7.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$7.492024-04-162026-08-302024-04-16 — best price $13.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-10-21 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-13 — best price $14.992025-01-18 — best price $10.492025-02-01 — best price $14.992025-02-21 — best price $14.992025-03-08 — best price $14.992025-03-19 — best price $11.992025-04-11 — best price $14.992025-05-07 — best price $10.492025-05-22 — best price $10.492025-06-07 — best price $10.492025-06-21 — best price $14.992025-07-23 — best price $10.492025-08-13 — best price $10.492025-08-26 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $10.492025-10-08 — best price $14.992025-11-03 — best price $14.992025-11-17 — best price $10.492026-01-11 — best price $14.992026-02-01 — best price $14.992026-03-11 — best price $10.492026-04-15 — best price $10.492026-05-01 — best price $14.992026-05-14 — best price $10.492026-06-02 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-24 — best price $10.492026-08-23 — best price $14.992026-08-29 — best price $14.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

FMV1990'sHorrorLore-RichMythologySimulationText-BasedAtmosphericDark ComedyLovecraftian

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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