Free games like Adverse Effects
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Adverse Effects, 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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Blush Blush
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
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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Crush Crush
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
Welcome to Crush Crush - the Idle Dating Sim! Meet, flirt, and fall in love with a motley cast of girls in this heartfelt and hilarious game.
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Carpe Diem
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
Seize the day
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Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window.
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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Come Home
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
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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Seduce Me the Otome
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
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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College Kings - The Complete Season
Free-to-play alternative to Adverse Effects — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Adverse Effects.
College Kings - The Complete Season (Acts I-III Combined): Sex, girls, parties, and power. As a freshman at San Vallejo College, you have the whole world in front of you. Will you let the next four years pass you by, or will you lead your fraternity to the crown and become campus royalty?