Free games like Once Alive
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Once Alive, 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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Tell Me Why
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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Cloud Climber
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.
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Press Any Button
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Once Alive.
This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.
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The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2
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Wardwell House
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
A storm washed you upon the shore of a mysterious island with a horrific past. A terrifying first-person atmospheric horror game.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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A Date in the Park
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Once Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.