Free games like Five Elements Chess
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Five Elements Chess, 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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
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 Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
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 Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
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 Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Five Elements Chess.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Five Elements Chess — 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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An Arcade Full of Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Five Elements Chess.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Five Elements Chess — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.