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What it is
Life Eater is a horror-fantasy game from Strange Scaffold in which you play a modern-day druid in suburbia. To delay the end of the world, you must identify and abduct specific people for an annual ritual. A video-editing-inspired timeline interface lets you piece together targets’ lives from blocks of their schedules, then choose when to act before authorities find your lair. The story frames the work around a dead-end job, an uncertain dark god, and a long list of targets. Its mix of authored and generated stories is replayable, and the story mode is fully voiced by Xalavier Nelson Jr. and Jarret Griffis. An Endless mode adds decades of procedurally generated targets. David Mason composed the original atmospheric soundscape. Steam features include single-player, achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. Life Eater is listed for Windows and released April 16, 2024.
What players like, and what they don't
- Timeline interface reveals targets’ schedules.
- Authored and generated stories support replayability.
- Endless mode features procedurally generated targets.
- Story mode is fully voiced.
- Steam Cloud and Family Sharing are listed.
- Listed for Windows only.
- Single-player only.
Who it suits
It suits players interested in a single-player horror story built around investigating schedules and making choices about when to abduct targets. The Endless mode may appeal to players who want procedurally generated targets.
Life Eater pairs schedule-based investigation with a dark ritual premise and an Endless mode. It is listed as a single-player Windows game.
