Free games like The Simplest Game in the World
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Simplest Game in the World, 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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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Simplest Game in the World.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Simplest Game in the World.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Simplest Game in the World.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Simplest Game in the World.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Simplest Game in the World.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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The Supper
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Simplest Game in the World.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Simplest Game in the World.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Free-to-play alternative to The Simplest Game in the World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Simplest Game in the World.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.