Games Like Death's Life

'Death Coming' is a non-linear puzzle game where you must harvest human souls ‘Final Destination’ style. However, pesky mortals are not your only problem, as the Agents of Light will do everything they can to stop you.

Why similar: Casual 78.2%, Indie 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features nearly identical mechanics where you must orchestrate environmental accidents to harvest souls without being detected by agents of light.

Possess the living, aid the dead and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death - a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a temporary replacement for Death, using puzzle-platforming mechanics to solve the problems of the living and the dead.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Casual 58.1%, Indie 41.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game puts you in the role of a Grim Reaper working a desk job, where your decisions about who lives and who dies carry significant moral weight.

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Casual 51.1%, Indie 48.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced management game where you act as a reaper for Death, sorting souls based on specific criteria while dealing with dark humor.

Nobodies is a puzzle-filled point-and-click adventure in which you must cover up government-sanctioned assassinations. Hide the bodies, destroy the evidence, and leave no trace you were ever there. They do the dirty work. You clean it up.

Why similar: Indie 53.6%, Casual 46.4%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game focuses on the aftermath of a hit, requiring you to hide bodies and clean up crime scenes to make them look like natural occurrences.

A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.

Why similar: Casual 51.9%, Indie 48.1%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game uses the death of your characters as a core mechanic, where you must sacrifice your previous lives to clear a path for the next one.

You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that directly explores the role of a novice reaper learning the ropes of the afterlife business.

Choose your hero and get to the finish without losing your head :) Avoid obstacles and try to complete the levels with all your body parts.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that centers on avoiding gruesome, slapstick-style accidents, mirroring the chaotic death mechanics of the seed game.

Hey, you just died. But don't worry! All the major religions were wrong! Instead of ascending to a new plane of existence, you are now self-employed in the Afterlife with your own haunted house to run. Keep people just scared enough to keep believing in you, but not enough to alert the local authorities.

Why similar: Casual 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you manage a haunted house to scare people to death, focusing on the logistical side of the afterlife.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous management sim where you handle the logistics of a medieval cemetery, including dealing with bodies and the afterlife.

Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game focused on managing a community of ghosts, capturing the lighthearted side of death management.

Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.

Why similar: Indie 54.9%, Casual 45.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct follow-up to the cleanup puzzle series, requiring you to use logic to erase evidence of foul play.

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: While not about death, it perfectly captures the spirit of causing chaos and setting up elaborate 'accidents' for unsuspecting NPCs.

A game where your only goal is to die - Just like in real life!

Why similar: Casual 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, indie simulation game that leans into the existential and morbid themes found in Death's Life.

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Casual 56.8%, Indie 43.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a dark, satirical tone and physics-based puzzle mechanics centered around burning objects in a fireplace.

Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!

Why similar: Casual 86.1%, Indie 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to the original reaper management game, offering more complex sorting mechanics and expanded dark comedy.

You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions for a procession of weird and spooky customers in this compact narrative puzzle experience.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy simulation game that incorporates dark fantasy elements and crafting mechanics.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, choice-driven management game where you must monitor tenants and make life-altering decisions in a dystopian setting.

The characters of Let Me Die (inside) have fallen into despair head over heels, so they want to leave this world and end their lives. Your duty is to fulfil their wish. In every level, the player is expected to find a way to die, but before that, he has to complete the death wishes of the character.

Why similar: Casual 58.4%, Indie 41.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle game that explores dark, philosophical themes through its unique visual style.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Indie 80.5%, Casual 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the bureaucratic pressure of making life-or-death decisions in a restrictive, high-stakes environment.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Casual 57.1%, Indie 42.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game where you control a hole in the ground to swallow objects, sharing the satisfying 'destruction' feel of the seed game.

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, earn as much money as you can, and get ready for the next mission.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Casual 100%

An 80s-themed puzzle game in which you avoid the line of sight of lethal gun turrets... while acquiring pick-up sticks.

Why similar: Casual 54.3%, Indie 45.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle game that uses environmental objects to direct lasers, requiring the same spatial reasoning as the seed game.

Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and relics, create damage stacking combos, and even cheat Death himself to emerge victorious.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Evil aliens invaded our peaceful pixel country. They destroyed all living thing around. You must stop them. Make the deadly jump into the darkness, defeat the Crushers and save our world!

Why similar: Casual 53.1%, Indie 46.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual platformer that uses death-themed motifs to provide a simple, arcade-style experience.

When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

Why similar: Casual 100%

In a peaceful part of the town, a series of deaths occur, seemingly random at first, but gruesome in their nature. One day, you find an object that doesn't belong in your house. An old, worn-out, stained mirror. You'll come to discover that the simple mirror isn't the only thing that is out of place.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror-adventure game that deals with psychological themes and the fragility of life.

This totally serious, 100% accurate to life corn harvesting simulation experience will get your adrenaline pumping and nerves excited. You'll never be able to farm for corn in the same light again! How much corn will YOU harvest before your eventual death by tractor?

Why similar: Casual 57.3%, Indie 42.7%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky simulation game that blends dark humor with simple, casual gameplay mechanics.

YOU ARE DEATH. The Grim Reaper. You must travel throughout various action packed scenarios, Reaping enemies and collecting their souls. FEAR THE REAPER

Minimal puzzle with matchsticks

Why similar: Casual 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle game that relies on simple physics and logic to solve levels.

Do you know what happens after check-in? Do you think our luggage is safe in the conveyor belts of the airport? Now you can discover the truth! Crazy Belts is a casual puzzle game that tells the amazing story of our bags, and why they end up in distant countries when we leave them in the belts...

Why similar: Casual 54.3%, Indie 45.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle game that requires timing and environmental manipulation to succeed, similar to the setup mechanics in the seed game.

Flick hapless Critters around to get them safely out of each level! Dodge all sorts of lethal goodies like spikes, buzzsaws, and fire, and use a variety of wacky items to pull it off.

Why similar: Indie 51.3%, Casual 48.7%

Minimalistic puzzle game telling about a tricky life situation, which gets your Hero. Mysterious world and treacherous enemies. Strange laws of this weird reality. Here the help of friends is more dangerous than the attack of enemies! Welcome to NEONomicon!

Why similar: Indie 63.4%, Casual 36.6%

When you die, you normally have only one simple wish - to return and tell them - "Hey, guys - it's OK" But returning is not easy...

Why similar: Casual 56.5%, Indie 43.5%

Save Their Souls is a mix of platformer and memory game. Players must be fast and memorize the rescue plan of each level, then, run to save the inhabitants of the occupied apartment.

Why similar: Casual 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

Lost in the abyssal depths of limbo, you are a tortured soul who is trapped between life and death, stuck in a dungeon whose puzzles will test you as you strive to go into the afterlife.

Why similar: Casual 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Victor Frankenstein, an old friend and a brilliant scientist has managed to resurrect the dead! However the border between life and death is fragile and Victor has learned the hard way that this balance should not be tempered with...

Why similar: Casual 59.8%, Indie 40.2%

The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow. You are the Apprentice, sent by the Master Detective to the City of Ink, to uncover who really murdered the King at the edge of the world.

Why similar: Casual 100%

You play for an unusual character. You must pass challenging puzzles. How to? By creating your own platforms! Some platforms are bouncy, some can move. But you only get a few. Use them wisely, player.

Why similar: Casual 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

Become an appraised bridge engineer and architect in Bridge Constructor. Create and design your own constructions and watch the cars and trucks pass over them - or see them fall and crash while your inferior creations collapse due to weight and the laws of physics!

Why similar: Casual 62.7%, Indie 37.3%

Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Now you have a chance to operate your own company....of suicide!

Why similar: Indie 100%

A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!

Enough with games where death is a nuisance that must be avoided at all costs: in Kill Yourself, death is your goal! But beware, it won't be easy: you'll need to work hard to find all the different ways to end the guy's miserable life.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A darkly humorous life simulator where every decision matters. Swipe left or right to guide a life through hundreds of strange events while balancing Health, Money, Social, and Happiness. Live well, die horribly, and try again.

Why similar: Casual 100%

A casual and relaxing game about sorting various items. Join Sorting Inc and climb up through the departments to become the absolute expert in the field of sorting.

Why similar: Casual 53.6%, Indie 46.4%

Become a phone repair technician, get the opportunity to look into the personal data of customers. Influence their destinies if you dare!

Why similar: Casual 100%

This is a story about an office clerk who tries to leave monotonous routine of life and do a book. And if he could find the time for his dream it depends on you.

Why similar: Casual 53.2%, Indie 46.8%

Set in a universe parodying poorly managed MMORPGs, even the inventory sort feature has stopped working. It's now up to you to organize the players' messy bags and handle their occasional complaints.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Hexoscope is a new puzzle game that challenges your skills to create from Chaos. You should arrange the chaotic combination of hexagonal Chips to create a Chain from Power Source to Power Receiver. You should swap Chips with each other to combine their pins into solid Chain from Source to Receiver.

Why similar: Casual 94.5%, Indie 5.5%

Discover the seven deadly sins and watch as the world crumbles at your fingertips as you create thousands of dastardly deeds. Combine fire, earth, wind & air to create demons, beasts, zombies... and much more. Being bad has never been so much fun!

Why similar: Indie 53.4%, Casual 46.6%

Destined to Die is a task managing game about depression, containing over 200+ pieces of physical and digital art. What's the point in life, if all paths lead to death. Choose your actions, and learn how to live. All paths lead to death, but how long can you live?

Why similar: Casual 88.9%, Indie 11.1%

Welcome to Purgatory, inc. now under new management! Death by Scrolling is an action game where you kill enemies, collect gold, and avoid the Reaper long enough to pay the Ferrymanʼs exorbitant river-crossing fee to the afterlife.

You are a sapper and your task in this game is to neutralize as many mines and bombs as you can.

Why similar: Casual 57.2%, Indie 42.8%