Free games like Dreadful River
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Dreadful River, 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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Dreadful River.
『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.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Dreadful River.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dreadful River.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dreadful River.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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DOGWALK
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Dreadful River — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Dreadful River.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.