Free games like Essays on Empathy
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Essays on Empathy, 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 Essays on Empathy — 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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
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 Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Unreachable
Free-to-play alternative to Essays on Empathy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Essays on Empathy.
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?