Free games like Afterlife
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Afterlife, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Emily is Away
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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Voices from the Sea
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.
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Adventure Escape Mysteries
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Play a story-driven room escape game with unique puzzles enjoyed by tens of millions of players. Solve mysteries, puzzle through escape rooms, and find the clue that will crack the case in a critically acclaimed puzzle adventure game!
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Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window.
In Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay by ILMxLAB, Poe Dameron's sidekick needs your help. Repair BB-8 and his astromech droid friends, each with their own unique personalities, so they can roll back into the fight against the First Order.
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Ballads at Midnight
Free-to-play alternative to Afterlife — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.