Free games like Deep Despair 2
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Deep Despair 2, 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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Deep Despair 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
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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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — 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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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
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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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Deep Despair 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Deep Despair 2.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.