Free games like Gimbal
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Gimbal, 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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Gimbal.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Gimbal.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Steam Engine Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Retrograde Arena
Free-to-play alternative to Gimbal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Retrograde Arena is a multiplayer twin stick shooter where bullets don’t kill. Use weapons, physics, and your Drone to push, pull, and blast your foes into deadly surroundings in this skill-based shooter action title that redefines physics-based action.