Free games like OBSCURA
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to OBSCURA, 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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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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It gets so lonely here
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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Everlasting Summer
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
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Blush Blush
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
You are responsible somehow for a curse that befalls 12 unfortunate hawt dudes. Now you have to find them and break the curse with your love!!
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Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
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ERROR143
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
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one night, hot springs
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Come Home
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
An adult visual novel with 20 romanceable characters, each with their own individual, optional, storylines. Plenty of sex, laughs, and romance awaits you as you navigate the different relationships, while trying to solve the mystery of your missing father.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to OBSCURA — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.