Free games like Rice Bowl Restaurant
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Rice Bowl Restaurant, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Rice Bowl Restaurant.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rice Bowl Restaurant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rice Bowl Restaurant.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rice Bowl Restaurant.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Rice Bowl Restaurant.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — 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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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Rice Bowl Restaurant — no purchase or trial window.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.