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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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.
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Cobalt Core — no purchase or trial window.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?