Free games like Shadow Vault
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Shadow Vault, 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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Shadow Vault.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Shadow Vault.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Shadow Vault.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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All Walls Must Fall - A Tech-Noir Tactics Game
Free-to-play alternative to Shadow Vault — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Shadow Vault.
All Walls Must Fall is a Tech-Noir Tactics game set in Berlin 2089, where the Cold War never ended.