Free games like Checkerboard Collection
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Checkerboard Collection, 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 Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window.
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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — 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 Checkerboard Collection — 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.
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window.
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.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Checkerboard Collection.
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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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Checkerboard Collection.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window.
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!
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NERTS! Online
Free-to-play alternative to Checkerboard Collection — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Checkerboard Collection.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!