Life Eater
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.4h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.41/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 386 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $7.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Any DirectX 11 or 12 compatible card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Home Safety Hotline ($14.99, scores 65) outscores it, and so does Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Life Eater
This site sampled 323 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 115 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it.
The drop-off
79% start to 22% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 08:13 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A time management game where you stalk your prey and kill them, all in a story of a serial killer slowly doubting his evil god. In terms of gameplay the time-management system is interesting. You spend time on increasingly difficult checks that can reveal a target's time while also giving awareness. The more you uncover the more details you can cite when you eventually capture your target and execute them in a way...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun game with an AMAZING story, I just wish there was a bit more replayability to it because I enjoyed it that much. Highly recommend if you enjoy a good story.
Great in everything except gameplay, which bogs down the whole experience. It's neat for an hour, but quickly gets repetitive and inconsistent with the conclusions you're supposed to make from the information presented by the game. More frustrating than enjoyable.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life Eater scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2632930/life-eaterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.