Life as a Lich

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About this game

You awake as an undead lich after performing a powerful ritual and will have to recruit undead minions and manage your underworld domains, exploring to discover the dark secrets within them and travel to other planes of existence to interact with fellow immortals. You will have to carefully balance the pursuit of your research of new spells, the logistical challenges of managing large numbers of undead minions and cultists, and the threats originating from your own world and other planes of existence.

"Life as a Lich" is a 207,000 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!

Ratings and reviews

Started this story 4 times. I get past the tutorial and start making choices. I close the app and open it later, and it resets my progress, undoing accumulated hours of work. The author is great, but they need to fix this app before i give it a try.

It keeps restarting at the beginning of the book and then I'm forced to start all over again, I want to play this book and enjoy it because it's fun. So the one problem I have is I lose all my progress when get off and on the app.

There are lot of typos and bugs in this initial release, even without the cheats (and there are actually typos in the code for those too, believe it or not). Based on the changelog, it looks like a lot of the content was added after play testing, which shouldn't be allowed. I don't expect the same level of polish as with the Choice of Games label, but this one is rather poor. It's not nearly to the standard of this author's previous work, and even those were mediocre.

What's new

Fixed a bug (for real, this time) where the app could lose progress when the app goes into the background. If you enjoy "Life as a Lich", please leave us a written review. It really helps!