Free games like The Burning Descent
Below are 12 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Burning Descent, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Burning Descent.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Burning Descent.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Burning Descent.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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oVRshot
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
Engage in epic battles! Choose unique special abilities, and dominate the competition. Customize your character with awesome cosmetics. Experience the ultimate VR archery game oVRshot now!
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Blaston
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Burning Descent.
In the slow-motion bullet-hell of Blaston, you duck, dodge, and weave to evade incoming attacks while preparing your dazzling next combos in a flash of skill. You feel like Neo and leave each session with your heart racing in this super fun tactical workout. Most importantly... Never. Stay. Still.
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Hyper Dash
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Burning Descent.
Hyper Dash is a free VR multiplayer team based shooter. Make smart use of Dashing, Sprinting, Walking and Rail Grinding to get around the arenas and win in a variety of gamemodes like; Payload, Domination, Control Point, (Team) Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, Elimination & Ball.
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VAIL
Free-to-play alternative to The Burning Descent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Burning Descent.
Download VAIL and experience the #1, highest-rated VR shooter, with precision-crafted gunplay, stunning visuals, unparalleled combat, and a constantly expanding world of modes, maps, and community