Free games like Hotloop
Below are 11 free-to-play Steam games similar to Hotloop, 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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Steam Engine Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Hotloop.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hotloop.
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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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — 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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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Simulation with Hotloop.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Lunar Odyssey
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Hotloop.
Don your xEMU Spacesuit, explore the Orontius Crater, and Lunar Module in an immersive first-person VR experience with out of this world accuracy and interaction. Follow real-life procedures, launch the Apollo-era Lunar Module, play Space Golf, and experience the moon like never before.
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Asteroids Extreme
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
Asteroids Extreme is a fast-paced, top-down, arcade-style asteroid mining adventure. Players blast asteroids and various enemies, collecting crystals along the way to upgrade their ship.
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Starfighter General
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hotloop.
Space ACTION-MMO. Control & upgrade more than one ship. Build a fleet! Turn a rag tag team into an armada. Aliens build relationships. Crew/attributes/skills/mastery/magic(legendary/unilegendary/unique)items. WORLD FIRST: Multicore MMO & INFINITE PLAYERS! Soon: Conquer star systems & Tax Players.