Free games like How does it work!?
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to How does it work!?, 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 How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window.
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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
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 How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Travellin Cats in Paris
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How does it work!?.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to How does it work!? — 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!