Nine Lives

Nine Lives (2020)

Siddharth Sivaraman · October 27, 2020 · Puzzle, Singleplayer, Voxel, Colorful, Isometric

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About Nine Lives

✦ AI summary

Nine Lives is a puzzle game where you manipulate multiple versions of yourself across time to solve increasingly complex challenges across nine thematically distinct areas. Coordinate with your past and future lives to overcome 80+ puzzles featuring creative obstacles like thorny plants, rats, and treacherous rivers in a charming voxel art world.

Think beyond your current life and solve puzzles by coordinating with your past and future lives!


Encounter all manner of creatures and obstacles that'll have you developing new strategies


Features

  • Progress through 9 different areas each adding a new twist.
  • Solve over 80 puzzles ranging from the very casual to the very challenging.
  • Use up to 9 lives to help solve increasingly challenging puzzles.
  • Cute voxel art style with a different theme for each of the nine areas.
  • Face dangerous thorny plants, catch sneaky rats, drown yourself in rivers and encounter much more as you make your way back to the wold of the living.

Nine Lives — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Nine Lives is a cat-based isometric puzzle game with charming voxel graphics that implements its nine-lives mechanic through a clever cloning and timing system where players must strategically sacrifice lives to solve increasingly challenging puzzles. Most players praise the creative puzzle design, attractive presentation, and surprising difficulty, though some note the game is relatively short and a few encountered technical glitches in later worlds. Players generally feel it's worth playing, particularly those who enjoy challenging puzzle games.

Recommended Oct 29, 2020
[b]nine lives[/b] is a cat-based isometric puzzler with excellent voxel-based presentation from the developer behind the amazing [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1113690]senna and the forest[/url], among other things. I'm not a fan of cats (to put it mildly) and I think they're seriouly over-represented in video games, as they are in real life, but in this case their presence is justified because of the whole nine lives thing. the cat starts with a single life and has to earn the rest by completing various trials. it's basically [b]one of those cloning and timing games[/b] where you have to do something, then create another iteration of yourself, then do something else while the first one retraces your steps, etc. or in this case, kill the current cat and start moving another while the previous one's ghost does its thing. movement uses energy, which I found unnecessary at first and it won't be an issue for quite some time, but comes into play later. and of course grabbing more lives in later areas won't let you use them in earlier ones to trivialize those puzzles. besides stepping on pressure plates, there are shooting plants, mice to catch (if spooked, they …
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Recommended Apr 14, 2023
it is okay but world 2 is broken, there is a puzzle where you need to catch 5 mice and open a door, but it glitches when you catch the 5 mice to open the door it thinks the levels over before you open the real door, the round the mulberry bush level is glitched. it works now guess it didn't load properly one time
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Recommended Mar 30, 2023
[h1]Before I played Nine Lives, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
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Recommended May 15, 2022
Really good game! I never played a puzzle game that challenged me this hard! Was not expecting that. 10/10, cool cat puzzles! The graphics and level design are awesome too!
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Recommended Nov 16, 2025
Игра 'Nine Lives' - это очаровательный платформер-головоломка, который зацепил меня с первых минут. Идея с девятью жизнями, которые можно использовать для решения головоломок, реализована просто гениально. Каждый раз, когда кот гибнет в ловушке, его "призрак" остаётся на месте, физически взаимодействуя с окружающей средой и помогая в дальнейшем прохождении. Графика в игре приятна глазу, она выполнена в мультяшном стиле, но без излишней детскости. Головоломки заставляют хорошенько пораскинуть мозгами, они не слишком сложные, но и не дают заскучать. Особенно интересно планировать свои действия, учитывая ограниченное число попыток. Единственный минус, который я бы отметил - это немного короткая продолжительность. Хотелось бы больше уровней и более сложных головоломок. В целом, 'Nine Lives' - отличная игра для тех, кто любит платформеры с изюминкой. Она точно стоит своих денег и подарит вам несколько часов увлекательного геймплея. Рекомендую!

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