Free games like VAR: Exterminate
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to VAR: Exterminate, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with VAR: Exterminate.
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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with VAR: Exterminate.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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 VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with VAR: Exterminate.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with VAR: Exterminate.
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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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with VAR: Exterminate.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Ashes of the Ark
Free-to-play alternative to VAR: Exterminate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Built exclusively for VR, Ashes of the Ark puts you into a survival situation where zombies have taken over the failing space station. Handle the most realistic weapons with real-life movements, freely explore the Ark, and solve puzzles in VR. Can you stop the Flood before they reach the cryo-sector?