Free games like Survive The Dark
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Survive The Dark, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Survive The Dark.
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 Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Survive The Dark.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Survive The Dark.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — 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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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Survive The Dark.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Survive The Dark.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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The Supper
Free-to-play alternative to Survive The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Survive The Dark.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.