Free games like Dread Days
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Dread Days, 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 Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Days.
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 Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Days.
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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — 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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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dread Days.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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D1AL-ogue
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — no purchase or trial window.
Become an android repair technician in a cyberpunk city where the sun never rises. Rotate the unique circular puzzle 'D1AL' and merge modules to fix their broken bodies and hearts. Your precise repair is the conversation starter. Turn the dial and listen to their stories.
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erdetspill
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Days.
Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.
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Gun Devil
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Days.
GUN DEVIL is an explosive platformer about rescuing your kidnapped hell wife from Satan's child, the Caramelized Dumbass and his Pimp Legion.
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Warframe
Free-to-play alternative to Dread Days — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Dread Days.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game