

Life as a Lich
Hosted Games · July 3, 2024 · Adventure, RPG, Singleplayer, Character Customization, Choices Matter
Buy Life as a Lich from Steam at $5.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.
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Life as a Lich price by region
Life as a Lich costs £4.99 in the United Kingdom, €5.89 in Europe (EUR), $5.99 in the United States, $5.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$7.79 in Canada, A$8.79 in Australia, NZ$8.99 in New Zealand, R$20.49 in Brazil and zł27.50 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
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| £4.99 | £4.99 | — | 1 | |
| €5.89 | €5.89 | — | 1 | |
| $5.99 | $5.99 | — | 1 | |
| $5.99 | $5.99 | — | 1 | |
| CA$7.79 | CA$7.79 | — | 1 | |
| A$8.79 | A$8.79 | — | 1 | |
| NZ$8.99 | NZ$8.99 | — | 1 | |
| R$20.49 | R$20.49 | — | 1 | |
| zł27.50 | zł27.50 | — | 1 |
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About Life as a Lich
Life as a Lich is a 200,000 word interactive novel by Adrao, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It is a sequel to both one of the endings of Tokyo Wizard and one of the endings of Raiders of the Icepeak Mountains, or it can be played as a standalone game by creating a new character.
Embrace being a lich, living an immortal life to research powerful spells and manage your underworld domains and minions. Will you dedicate yourself to the research on how to become a demigod and abandon your skeletal form? Or will you decide that life as an undead is not something for you, and seek to reincarnate yourself into a mortal form? Are you an evil lich, seeking to kill and enslave all in your path, or a benevolent necromancer trying to help those who worship you? Is companionship and love something that you seek in undeath, or will solitude and the search for power fill your soul?
- • Import your character from either Tokyo Wizard or Raiders of the Icepeak Mountains, or make a new character in either modern-day Japan or a fantasy world.
- • Learn or research over 50 unique spells.
- • Explore and expand your underworld domains, or travel to different planes of existence.
- • Raise large undead armies, composed of a mixture of skeletons, zombies, ghouls, necrodragons, golems...or even form a rat army!
- • Battle or befriend an array of different creatures, including demons from other planes and demigods!
- • Try several different difficulty settings. Start as a mighty lich on "Very Easy", or struggle to overcome the challenges in "Impossible" mode!
- • Manage your underworld domains, allocating your minions to various tasks to develop your economy...or focus on the story!
- • Play as male, female, or nonbinary, and romance other undead!
- • Enjoy a variety of different game paths and stories, with multiple side missions and endings.
Experience undeath as a powerful necromancer!
Life as a Lich — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The epilogue was missing, instead there was a comment urging readers to support the author's work on Patreon so they can make more games or finish this one. It is concerning to offer an incomplete product for sale, and to solicit financial support in this manner may be considered exploitative. - Occasional typos, notably one in a final choice which ruins immersion completely - Bugs with upgrading minions via spells (familiars, skeletons) - Missing informational feedback for upgrades, amounts of goods and minions - Bugged shop system, where only one item is bought instead of 10 - Limited management options (e.g. only able to manage up to ten at a time) - Excessive UI spam and filler throughout, easily stretching beyond Steam's return period - Lack of clarity on which options will progress the day and which ones won't - Ability to assign minions to tasks that don't scale with more minions (e.g. spying, establishing a cult) - No highlighting when dialogue or exploration options are exhausted, leading to wasted turns - Confusion with minor and major spells of the same type leading to unpredictable results or bugs - Backing out of choices sometimes wastes a turn without any benefit - L…65 found this helpful
Frequent spelling errors, lacking in important information regarding resources and character abilities, noticeable absence of explanation for vital mechanics. I love the idea but as of right now, very poorly implemented.22 found this helpful
I enjoyed this game. It's quite different to most hosted games. It feels like playing more of a role playing game with the ability to decide how hard I want the game to be, and different events popping up with the previous choices and resources you have at hand affecting how you can interact with them which gives it a lot of replayability. Now I'm off to lead my undead rat army to victory!7 found this helpful
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Extremly confusing, based of another work of the author thats not clearly named and very hard to learn. If you chose the stand alone start, you have a compelling story that just suddenly stops and dumps you without explenation in a text-dungeon game. In my opinion this should not have been made a choice of games game, it would have worked better as RAGS or RPG-Maker game. Because of how complicated everything was and without any explenation how things work, i just remaind stuck after the promising start and couldnt go further, leaving me unable to enjoy or finish this game.3 found this helpful
I wanted to like it.. I got one of the prequels (the Tokyo one) to try and like it.. Here's the demigod ending: [spoiler] EPILOGUE (…) No epilogue…This may eventually become the starting point for another book! [/spoiler] Literally that's it. Most of the game is 'grinding' (clicking through the same choices over and over) except that you don't really know what you're grinding for. Your spells don't really say what the requirements are for them so you can spend 20 in-game days trying to bring back up your mental stats to raise a dracolich only to find out you were supposed to astrally go to the realm of death twice. You get an 'army of the undead' spell with no requirements, that you can't cast until the very end (but it doesn't tell you that so you keep trying to figure out why you can't cast it) only to find out you can't cast it then either (no idea why though, it doesn't say). You get a quest for some ancient queen and you knock everyone out fine until you meet some cleric who banishes you.... How? No idea. How do you overcome it? No clues, nothing appears after to make you think 'oh I should have tried that'. Can you go back and try again? Nope, not unless you restart and re…1 found this helpful
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