Free games like Arctic Anxiety
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Arctic Anxiety, 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 Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic Anxiety.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Arctic Anxiety.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — 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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic Anxiety.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Anxiety.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Anxiety.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic Anxiety.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Anxiety.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Ylands
Free-to-play alternative to Arctic Anxiety — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Arctic Anxiety.
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!