Free games like COVID: The Outbreak
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to COVID: The Outbreak, 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 COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
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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Steam Engine Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
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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DOGWALK
Free-to-play alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.