Free games like Surviving Deponia
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Surviving Deponia, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Surviving Deponia.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Deponia.
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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Deponia.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Dawnlands
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
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Planet Explorers
Free-to-play alternative to Surviving Deponia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.