Free games like The Black Pool
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Black Pool, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Black Pool.
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 The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — 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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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to The Black Pool — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Pool.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.