Games like Life as a Lich
If Life as a Lich is your kind of game, the closest matches are Keeper's Vigil, The Nascent Necromancer and Temple of Endless Night — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Life as a Lich 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.
Keeper's Vigil
WHY THIS
Top pick for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
The Nascent Necromancer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Temple of Endless Night
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Whiskey-Four
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Dawn of Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Message in a Melody
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Scarlet Sails
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Life as a Lich fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life as a Lich at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life as a Lich.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as a Lich.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life as a Lich.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life as a Lich on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life as a Lich.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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. Shares Adventure with Life as a Lich.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life as a Lich.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life as a Lich.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
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 Adventure with Life as a Lich.
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.
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Fallen Hero: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!
Fallen Hero: Retribution
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Tin Star
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
Lords of Infinity
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
WHY THIS
Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Life as a Lich. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Under the lights of the carnival, will romance and adventure bloom anew? The quiet town of Wayhaven is once again the center of supernatural occurrences.
Frequently asked about Life as a Lich
- How much does Life as a Lich cost?
- Life as a Lich is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life as a Lich?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life as a Lich are Keeper's Vigil, The Nascent Necromancer, Temple of Endless Night.
- Who developed Life as a Lich?
- Life as a Lich was developed by Hosted Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Life as a Lich.
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