Free games like Awaken
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Awaken, 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 Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Awaken.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Awaken.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Awaken.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Awaken.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Awaken.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Awaken.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Awaken.
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?
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Awaken — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awaken.
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!