Free games like Day at the Races
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Day at the Races, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Day at the Races.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and Casual with Day at the Races.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Day at the Races.
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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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Day at the Races.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — 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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An Arcade Full of Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Day at the Races.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and Casual with Day at the Races.
『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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Derby's Tycoon Online
Free-to-play alternative to Day at the Races — no purchase or trial window. Shares Sports and Strategy with Day at the Races.
Become a horse owner, own your own horses, train and participate in various races, and cultivate horse kings to dominate the track! Buy luxury cars, own your own independent villa, decorate your own mansion, form your own horse racing club with like-minded people, and become the derby's tycoon!