Free games like Cobalt Core
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Cobalt Core, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — 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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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cobalt Core.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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Moonring
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window.
A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.