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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Hotloop.
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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OnlyCans: Thirst Date
Free-to-play alternative to Hotloop — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hotloop.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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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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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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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.