Free games like The Dead Await
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Dead Await, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Dead Await.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dead Await.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dead Await.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dead Await.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Dead Await.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Nazi Zombies
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Dead Await.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Unturned
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Dead Await.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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The Dead Await: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Dead Await — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await.
Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.