Free games like Deep Despair
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Deep Despair, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Deep Despair.
Episode 1 now FREE! 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.
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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Despair.
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 Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
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 Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Deep Despair.
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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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Planet Explorers
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.