Free games like Shadow Life
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Shadow Life, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Life.
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 Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Shadow Life.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
- 3
ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Shadow Life.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
- 4
Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Shadow Life.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Shadow Life.
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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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Life.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Shadow Life.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Life.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.