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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.

Life Eater is an Indie, RPG, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive sentiment from 386 reviews and an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 386 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 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

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.7k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 386 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$10.49-30%

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 28 of 85 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
777720242026Week of 2024-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$7.492024-04-162026-10-142024-04-16 — best price $13.492024-08-14 — best price $11.992024-11-27 — best price $11.992024-12-13 — best price $14.992025-01-22 — best price $14.992025-02-13 — best price $11.992025-03-08 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-05-01 — best price $10.492025-05-22 — best price $10.492025-06-12 — best price $10.492025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-13 — best price $10.492025-08-27 — best price $14.992025-10-07 — best price $10.492025-11-03 — best price $14.992025-12-04 — best price $10.492026-01-23 — best price $10.492026-03-11 — best price $10.492026-04-18 — best price $7.492026-05-06 — best price $10.492026-06-02 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-12 — best price $10.492026-08-29 — best price $14.992026-09-02 — best price $14.992026-09-06 — best price $14.992026-09-10 — best price $14.992026-09-14 — best price $14.992026-09-18 — best price $14.992026-09-22 — best price $14.992026-09-26 — best price $14.992026-09-30 — best price $14.992026-10-04 — best price $14.992026-10-08 — best price $10.492026-10-12 — best price $10.492026-10-14 — best price $10.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3372026-05-30 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 10 pageviews2026-06-07 — 20 pageviews2026-06-11 — 12 pageviews2026-06-15 — 21 pageviews2026-06-19 — 17 pageviews2026-06-23 — 14 pageviews2026-06-27 — 26 pageviews2026-07-01 — 17 pageviews2026-07-05 — 28 pageviews2026-07-09 — 14 pageviews2026-07-13 — 10 pageviews2026-07-17 — 13 pageviews2026-07-21 — 23 pageviews2026-07-25 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 24 pageviews2026-08-02 — 20 pageviews2026-08-06 — 20 pageviews2026-08-10 — 7 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 33 pageviews2026-08-22 — 28 pageviews2026-08-26 — 9 pageviews2026-08-30 — 17 pageviews2026-09-03 — 22 pageviews2026-09-07 — 10 pageviews2026-09-11 — 11 pageviews2026-09-15 — 24 pageviews2026-09-19 — 24 pageviews2026-09-23 — 14 pageviews2026-09-27 — 14 pageviews2026-10-01 — 8 pageviews2026-10-05 — 20 pageviews2026-10-08 — 30 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
79.5%
earned "...The Cage I Bought to Contain Him"
35.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)25941%11

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FMV1990'sHorrorLore-RichMythologySimulationText-BasedAtmosphericDark ComedyLovecraftian

Census log

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

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