Games like Life Eater

Loved how dark and mysterious Life Eater can get? You might settle into these games easily.

Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cultist Simulator
A card game of apocalypse and yearning in a 1920s world of hidden gods. Combine cards to found a cult, translate grimoires and chase forbidden knowledge, with no tutorial to hold your hand. It is difficult, strange and slow to reveal itself, and for patient players that is exactly the appeal.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
81% of 10,914 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 132$19.99
Care
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
93% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
For Mother Matron
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
SIMULACRA
A woman named Anna is missing, and her phone is in your hands. Search her messages, emails, photos and dating app, talk to the people in her life, and piece together what happened before it is too late. A found-phone horror story with live actors, real choices and five endings.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
92% of 3,488 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$4.99
House
You are a young girl in a house that wants your whole family dead. Every hour brings a new accident, a new monster, a new way to die. Learn the house's timetable, turn its items into tools, and decide who lives, who dies, and how the night ends. Multiple endings, and it never quite ends.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
95% of 2,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
No, I'm not a Human
The sun is burning the world, and the night belongs to the Visitors: things that look and talk like us. You run a house at the end of days, deciding who knocks hard enough to earn shelter, and who to check for signs. An anxiety horror about paranoia, trust and doors you wish you had not opened.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
93% of 28,158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$14.99
PROXIMATE
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
92% of 983 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
90% of 575 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Feed The Pit
A cult handed you a deck of magical cards and a simple job: find the wealthy people hiding in Carrister Valley and feed them to the Pit. Deduce their location, dodge the monster hunting you, and unravel a branching story that is funnier and stranger than it has any right to be.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
97% of 779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Just Ignore Them
Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong. A pixel horror adventure that follows Mark from age 8 into adulthood, where critical choices decide who lives, who dies, and which ending you earn. A few hours long, built to be played again.
Dark, Mysterious, Story-driven
78% of 695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99

Cheaper than Life Eater

Care

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences.

$9.99

SIMULACRA

Dig through a missing woman's messages and apps, question the people who knew her, and race to uncover the truth before it is too late.

$4.99

House

A pixel horror where a living house hunts your family through the night, and each run teaches you a little more about how to survive it.

$9.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

Feed The Pit

Track down the valley's hidden wealthy targets for the cult, all while a monster hunts you through a branching, darkly funny horror story.

$9.99

Just Ignore Them

Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong.

$3.99

Eternal Afternoon

Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

$8.99

Growing My Grandpa!

Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and…

$4.99

Is Simon There?

A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever…

$4.99

Mists of Aiden

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Life Eater

Feed The Pit

Track down the valley's hidden wealthy targets for the cult, all while a monster hunts you through a branching, darkly funny horror story.

$9.99

Eternal Afternoon

Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

$8.99

The Deadseat

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

$2.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you.

$14.99

Grunn

Tend the garden by day, break the rules after dark, and piece together what is really going on in this short, unsettling mystery.

$12.99

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

A temp data entry job in the big city: you type up lost mail that has nowhere else to go. Then the letters start looking back.

$14.99

Dead Reset

A surgeon, a parasite and an underwater facility: make the right calls in a horror film where every death loops you back to the operating table.

$14.99

PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$14.99

While We Wait Here

Serve food and comfort at a mountain diner while the end of the world approaches.

$4.99

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