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Life Eater review - an intriguingly uncomfortable game about abduction that chickens out a bit

Few game ideas will turn your head quicker than one about abducting people and murdering them. It's an idea that courts…

Far from it: the moment-to-moment gameplay actually revolves around staring at people's day-to-day calendars, a kind of diary of events, and gradually filling them out. You do this by clicking on an empty space and selecting one of a few stalkery things to do to reveal them, such as carrying out a DDoS attack or hacking their phone, or peering inside their window. Perhaps it's understandable because to be another way, the game would have to wade head-on into some pretty heady topics and have capital-O opinions about them - about things like mental illness, and abduction and murder, and there's no easy-reading there.

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