Life Eater
Video Game • 2024 • Horror
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we only see Ralph make human sacrifices, i can't recall animals ever being involved in any violence in the game. sometimes a choice you can make as one way to artificially get closer to your neighbor, you can "return" their escaped pet, implying you're the one who abducted it just to lie about having found it outside and claiming to just be returning it. however, there's no implication of physical harm to the animal in the process. i think we can assume nothing more happens to the pet than some confusion.
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in certain daily routines of potential victims, you can see little actions they take being roofiing someone's drink. this implies intent to sexual assault, but we are never made aware whether or not anything beyond that actually takes place.
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one of the game's main mechanics is a ritual sacrifice you're made to commit where you mutilate the victim's organs in very specific ways. not always an easy game for the squeamish, but i guess you can skip those scenes easily enough. there are bits of gore in many of the cutscenes tho, to varying degrees of graphic-ness
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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both men and women can be victims in this, and not much distinction is made between them. what we actually see of the victims is vague and often off-screen. you mostly just see their vague gray silhouette while you're stalking them and then their removed organs after the kill is done.
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Is someone tortured?
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not on purpose, but Johnny is definitely extremely tortured by the circumstances Ralph is forced to keep him in to continue to get away with Zimforth's commands
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[spoiler for the ending]
in the end, you are tasked with killing Johnny and your choices are to do it or kill yourself instead.
in the end, you are tasked with killing Johnny and your choices are to do it or kill yourself instead.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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[spoiler for the ending]
in the end, you are tasked with killing Johnny and your choices are to do it or kill yourself instead.
in the end, you are tasked with killing Johnny and your choices are to do it or kill yourself instead.
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someone is kept in a cage and regularly fed and presumably cleaned but physically left to atrophy in the dark most of the day for 10 years, as well as incidentally being forced annually to witness a brutal ritual sacrifice. not typical domestic violence, but it does happen in a suburban home and themes of abusive relationships in general are present in the overall story so it could be uncomfortable
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Does it have a sad ending?
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both endings are incredibly tragic. one of the points of this game is the unavoidable weight of the protagonist's actions, whether or not they have good intentions behind them. Ralph is never able to be absolved of his gruesome actions, and Johnny is never able to get back what was taken from him whether or not he escapes.
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Is there blood/gore?
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the gore varies in levels of graphic, but blood is certainly very present throughout the game
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Are there end credit scenes?
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no epilogue cutscene or anything but if you choose the bad ending, after the credits it unlocks endless mode which reveals that Zimforth did not and will never let Ralph leave his service
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Is there audio gore?
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we hear gross squishy and slashing sounds often accompanying the violence shown enacted in this game
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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we can tell that Johnny pities Ralph for the circumstances he is under (whether they're genuine or imagined) that made him have to do these awful things, but Johnny purposefully avoids forgiving Ralph for his actions and won't even pretend that they can really be considered friends because of the unavoidable unbalanced power dynamic between them that can never be rectified.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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much, much stabbing and slashing of flesh, as ritual sacrifice is one of the main mechanics of the game
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Is there a large age gap?
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Ralph develops feelings for Johnny who is about 10 years younger than him, and Johnny is in his early 20s when they meet. however, it is made clear that these feelings are not reciprocated and could never be consensual because of the circumstances the 2 are in. Johnny has no agency in the situation, and they both acknowledge that fact.
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Is someone buried alive?
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the victims are definitely already dead by the time any of them get buried.
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Is there copaganda?
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it's possible to stalk a police officer as a potential victim, and one activity you can catch them doing during the week is burying bodies, meaning they themself are already a murderer.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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it's entirely possibly that some victims may have left children behind in getting selected for sacrifice, but it's definitely not their active choice. and the victims' family situations are vague at all points.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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[ending spoiler]
Ralph clearly has at least some level of queer attraction, as he admits love to Johnny. and one of the only 2 endings is Ralph sacrificing himself so he doesn't have to kill Johnny.
Ralph clearly has at least some level of queer attraction, as he admits love to Johnny. and one of the only 2 endings is Ralph sacrificing himself so he doesn't have to kill Johnny.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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while Johnny implores Ralph to test if Zimforth is actually real since he has no physical proof of his circumstances, he's fairly soft about it and doesn't just outright claim it's fake and accuse Ralph of delusion.
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Is someone eaten?
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not physically, but the title is about how Zimforth eats away at years and years of Ralph's entire life, his identity, his purpose, his chance at ever truly being able to call himself a good person, and [spoiler] Ralph in turn eats away at 10 years of Johnny's life, and takes his vision, and eventually ends his life, if you make that choice when prompted at the very end
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Is there gun violence?
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we basically only see Ralph use knives to kill, as he needs to extract their organs for the sacrifice anyway
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Is there misophonia?
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Ralph experiences incredible pain in his head whenever he receives messages from Zimforth, but it's ambiguous whether the sound of it itself is painful to him or if Zimforth is also just causing him agony on purpose to try to kick him into gear
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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it's left completely ambiguous whether or not Zimforth is real or a hallucination in Ralph's head, but either way Ralph is clearly an extremely traumatized individual who commits murder every year
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Ralph is clearly haunted by everything he has to do, but i don't think we ever see him explicitly have flashback episodes or anything
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Is someone restrained?
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many people are kidnapped by the protagonist throughout the game, and Johnny is kept in a cage for most of it
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the game is definitely about breaking cycles of abuse in a metaphorical sense, but the exact dynamics of abuse between 'all-powerful god and his victim who believes he has no possible way to escape without harming many others in the process' and 'man keeping another man in his basement specifically to protect the secrecy of the works he's forced into by said god' are like... not exactly equivocal. though Ralph is not at all excused because we're not sure if the god supposedly forcing him to do all this is even real, i think it is much different than a person abused by another person who then goes on to later abuse a different person in the same way they were. i hope this makes sense lol
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Does a parent die?
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it's entirely possibly that some victims may have left children behind in getting selected for sacrifice, but the victims' family situations are pretty vague at all points
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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we are constantly left to wonder whether Zimforth is real or all in Ralph's head, and when Johnny convinces Ralph to test whether Zimforth would actually punish him for refusing to carry out the sacrifice, some kind of record-breaking earthquake happens their exact area that kills people and they freak out and take it as a sign that it's not worth risking it and Ralph continues his grim work.
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even in the good ending where Ralph dies and Johnny escapes, he is left to wonder if it was all coincidence or if the world's doom is still impending sometime in the near future.
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even in the good ending where Ralph dies and Johnny escapes, he is left to wonder if it was all coincidence or if the world's doom is still impending sometime in the near future.
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Does someone break a bone?
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you're made to break ribs yourself after parts are removed from the deceased sacrificial victim
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Does a major character die?
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[ending spoilers]
in one ending, Ralph dies. in the other, Johnny dies
in one ending, Ralph dies. in the other, Johnny dies
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Johnny and Ralph both cry at different times and neither is shamed for it
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Is someone stalked?
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if stalking is a big trigger for you, i would avoid this game altogether.
the main mechanic of the entire game is for you as the protagonist to stalk your neighbors in order to select a victim for sacrifice to an angry god. as you mess with them in little ways in order to find out more about their schedules, they grow more paranoid and you see them have trouble sleeping and stuff as a result.
the main mechanic of the entire game is for you as the protagonist to stalk your neighbors in order to select a victim for sacrifice to an angry god. as you mess with them in little ways in order to find out more about their schedules, they grow more paranoid and you see them have trouble sleeping and stuff as a result.
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Ralph says he has to refer to people as "beasts" for slaughter to Zimforth as a coping mechanism, because viewing them as real people is too daunting for him. he feels tremendous guilt for the things he feels forced to do, so he tells himself he's not even a real person in order to shield himself enough emotionally that he can continue to do Zimforth's violent biddings, to the point where every time you see and hear his name on the screen, it's distorted. because he can't accept himself as a real autonomous person.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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he's not in a super small cage or anything, but if being caged in general is claustrophobic to you then maybe. Johnny is seen crying due to upset over being trapped and being forced to witness the violence, but is not shown explicitly to panic from the small size of the space
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Is existentialism debated?
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for a game that causes you to grapple with how much of the protagonist's experience is real or not, it doesn't actually address existence itself very much. it's clear that whether or not Zimforth and his demands for Ralph are real or hallucinatory, the dirty deeds he carries out for Zimforth and his own guilt in doing so are very very real. Ralph never even really questions the logistics of things, he just accepts that he has to do it for the apparent greater good of humanity, no matter how or why anything is happening.
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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the main mechanic of the game is you as the protagonist stalking your neighbors and trying to keep as little awareness and suspicion from the target in the process as you can
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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[ending spoiler]
yes, quite literally. at the end when you're tasked with killing Johnny, your choices are to comply or to turn the knife on yourself instead.
yes, quite literally. at the end when you're tasked with killing Johnny, your choices are to comply or to turn the knife on yourself instead.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Ralph experiences bright lights and severe pain when he receives messages from Zimforth, often collapsing afterwards. one time he is shown to fall and hurt his head. since it's ambiguous whether Zimforth is real or not, it could be that Ralph simply experiences seizures that cause him delusions and hallucinations with them. but we don't know for sure.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Johnny tries to escape at one point, but falls down the stairs due to the muscle atrophy in his legs from being caged all day for years. he also falls on the weapon he carried with him, and injures his torso
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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it's unclear if Zimforth is real or if Ralph suffers from some kind of brain issue
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Is religion discussed?
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briefly. Johnny asks Ralph is he has any scriptures or cult group that he follows, but he says he's not part of any religion and just does what Zimforth asks for the greater good and doesn't seem to like to dwell on it any further than that
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Is someone kidnapped?
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many people over the years, and you have to actively do it yourself
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Are there demons or Hell?
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while (if real) Zimforth is obviously a cruel god with no love for his creations, no mentions are made of demons or any form of afterlife that i can recall
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Johnny has several breakdowns over the course of the cutscenes, and Ralph has a major one at the end
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in some ways, unclear. in others, definitely.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Johnny mentions that he hasn't seen his mom in 10 years and that she had no idea where he had gone or why, which is obviously not something he had a choice in but still
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if you become too suspicious, you can be reported and potentially arrested as a way to fail the game
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it's a video game
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Is someone homeless?
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i'm pretty sure all potential victims have homes of some kind, and neither of the 2 narratively relevant characters are homeless
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Is someone possessed?
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though Ralph's mind is completely overwhelmed when receiving Zimforth's messages, and though he feels like he has no choice in following Zimforth's demands, it's clear that he is in full control of himself at all times and chooses to carry them out for the apparent greater good
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