Free games like The Shadows Lengthen
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Shadows Lengthen, 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 Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.
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 The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.
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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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Shadows Lengthen.
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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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — 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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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.
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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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to The Shadows Lengthen — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.
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.