Life Eater
April 16, 2024
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 …
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75.0
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70.0
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60.0
"In Life Eater, this manifests through its interesting stalking mechanic and the Strange Scaffold staple of an exemplary script."
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28.0
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58.0
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82.0
"Life Eater is a game I&s;m a little sad I can&s;t rate on concept and premise alone. Snooping through timelines of activities of potential targets and investigating tidbits to try and correctly take down those requested is good on paper, …"
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28.0
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55.0
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62.0
"While I was undeniably a little disappointed after going into this with high expectations, it&s;s a very unique game that offers an interesting experience once you accept that it&s;s a much smaller project."
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80.0
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75.0
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90.0
"Life Eater is the kind of game that comes with a lot of ifs. If you&s;re able to buy into its disturbing narrative, if you&s;re okay with abstract systems-driven storytelling, if you&s;re okay with short and easy... then sign up! …"
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60.0
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75.0
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30.0
"Mechanically, Life Eater uses a diary-based puzzle system in some really interesting ways, but it struggles to say anything meaningful about the shock-factor setting it&s;s gone for."
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65.0
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55.0
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80.0
"Life Eater provides something quite different from anything else available, and will likely live long in the memory. For that reason, even in spite of its faults, it&s;s probably worth a try for anyone with even a cursory interest in …"
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60.0
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45.0
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65.0
"Life Eater is a game with great promise. It has a unique and horrific premise that sees you as a serial killer fulfilling the wishes of some demonic god through ritual sacrifice, but never manages to live up to that …"
Read original review"Life Eater feels like an experiment that neither fizzled nor exploded. All the parts are there, but they don’t fit together quite right. Something is missing, and before that something was located, it was released into the wild as-is. Because …"
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