Free games like Crystal Project
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Crystal Project, 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 Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Crystal Project.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Crystal Project.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Project.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Project.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Crystal Project.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Project.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Project.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Crystal Project — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Project.
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.