Free games like Backstab
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Backstab, 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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
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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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
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 Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
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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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
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 Backstab — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Backstab.
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.