Games like Life Eater
If Life Eater is your kind of game, the closest matches are Home Safety Hotline, I.T. Never Ends and Yeli Orog — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Life Eater: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Life Eater also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Home Safety Hotline
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object search, resource management, horror and an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Top pick for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
I.T. Never Ends
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Yeli Orog
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
Yeli Orog is a short atmospheric FMV game about an immense archaeological discovery: A bizarre stone tablet written in the Celtiberian language found buried underneath an ancient dolmen in northern Spain.
Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
It's got action! It's got romance! In this RPG-Dating Sim, gather your party and try to settle a centuries-old dispute among your monster and human classmates! The fate of Winter Prom is at stake!
Bloodweight
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
100 generations. one ledger. one heir at a time. you are the bloodline itself, guiding your lineage through the ages. you spend each life; the Soul Teller writes what it was. when your line ends, you read the chronicle of yourself. how will YOUR dynasty fall?
Simulator of Ukraine 1991
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Ranked #6 for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
xiuzhen idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. （The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it）
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Ranked #8 for Life Eater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life Eater at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Life Eater.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Life Eater.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Life Eater on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Life Eater.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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More from Strange Scaffold
Other recommendable Steam games by Strange Scaffold, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
I Am Your Beast
WHY THIS
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater.
Hunt the military-industrial complex across stylish comic book micro-sandboxes in this fast-paced covert revenge thriller FPS from the developers of El Paso, Elsewhere.
CLICKOLDING
WHY THIS
Shares psychological horror and an unsettling mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.
El Paso, Elsewhere
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater.
STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Life Eater.
Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.
Dread X Collection
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares resource management, indie and a tense mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Simulation with Life Eater.
Buy low, sell high, and short an entire universe of babies in this arcade stock market sim set in the world of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life Eater.
Another title from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind Life Eater. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.
Frequently asked about Life Eater
- Does Life Eater run on Steam Deck?
- Life Eater is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Life Eater cost?
- Life Eater is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life Eater?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life Eater are Home Safety Hotline, I.T. Never Ends, Yeli Orog.
- Who developed Life Eater?
- Life Eater was developed by Strange Scaffold and published by Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop.
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