Free games like Nine Nights
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Nine Nights, 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 Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
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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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nine Nights.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nine Nights.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Nine Nights — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
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!