Free games like A Very Bad Christmas Eve
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to A Very Bad Christmas Eve, 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 A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — 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 A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
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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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to A Very Bad Christmas Eve — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with A Very Bad Christmas Eve.
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.