Lifeline (Series) Alternatives

Lifeline is described as 'Playable, branching story of survival against all odds. Using your device, you will help Taylor make life or death decisions, and face the consequences together' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lifeline for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone, Mac and Steam apps. The best Lifeline alternative is Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lifeline are Katawa Shoujo, Life Is Strange, Clannad and Everlasting Summer.

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Lifeline alternatives page was last updated Apr 29, 2025
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    Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is an open-source project that aims to provide a revamped version of the beloved visual novel Katawa Shoujo. It has been developed with a strong emphasis on accessibility and user-friendly experience.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Online

    Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered Features

    1.  Visual Novel

    Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered VS Lifeline

     
    • Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to Lifeline.

    • Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Lifeline.

    • Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is Free and Open SourceLifeline is Paid and Proprietary
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    Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a...

    16 Katawa Shoujo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Katawa Shoujo Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Visual Novel
    3.  Love

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    Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    19 Life Is Strange alternatives

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    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox

    Life Is Strange Features

    1.   Game Series
    2.  Single player
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Achievements Supported
    5.  Multiplayer
    6.  Episodic video game

    Life Is Strange VS Lifeline

     
    • Life Is Strange is the most popular commercial alternative to Lifeline.

    • Life Is Strange is Paid and ProprietaryLifeline is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Life Is Strange is MultiplayerLifeline is not according to our users
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    Clannad is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004 for Windows PCs.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • JP flagJapan

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android

    Clannad Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Visual Novel
    3.  Love

    Clannad VS Lifeline

     
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    Everlasting Summer is a visual novel from Russian developers that offers very sincere and bright emotions about the days past and hopes yet to come true.

    15 Everlasting Summer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Everlasting Summer Features

    1.  Moddable
    2.  Single player
    3.  Visual Novel

    Everlasting Summer VS Lifeline

     
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    Doki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel, as such, the majority of the gameplay consists of the player reading the game's story with little impact on what direction the plot takes.

    17 Doki Doki Literature Club! alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam

    Doki Doki Literature Club! Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Moddable
    3.  Visual Novel
    4.  Psychological horror
    5.  Free to play
    6.  Master Details forms

    Doki Doki Literature Club! VS Lifeline

     
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    The Wolf Among Us is an episodic interactive mystery drama graphic adventure video game based on Bill Willingham's Fables comic book series.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    The Wolf Among Us Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Episodic video game

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    The Walking Dead (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic graphic adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series. The game was developed by Telltale Games and was initially slated for release in the last months of 2011, but was held...

    10 The Walking Dead alternatives

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    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone

    The Walking Dead Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Player vs Player
    3.  Episodic video game

    The Walking Dead VS Lifeline

     
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    Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series is an episodic graphic adventure fantasy drama video game based on the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin and their TV adaptation Game of Thrones.

    10 Game of Thrones alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Game of Thrones Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Episodic video game

    Game of Thrones VS Lifeline

     
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    Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama.

    10 Façade alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Façade Features

    1.  Single player

    Façade VS Lifeline

     
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    After climate change wrecked the planet, a man-made extinction event wiped humankind off the face of the Earth. Only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ were hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam

    The Descendant Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Episodic video game
    3.  Storyline

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    Cinders is a visual novel where you make decisions that guide the retelling of a classic fairy tale.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam

    Cinders Features

    1.  Visual Novel

    Cinders VS Lifeline

     
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