Free games like The Tainted Lands
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Tainted Lands, 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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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Tainted Lands.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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 The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with The Tainted Lands.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to The Tainted Lands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Tainted Lands.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...