Free games like CHERNO
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to CHERNO, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with CHERNO.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with CHERNO.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with CHERNO.
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 CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with CHERNO.
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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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHERNO.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHERNO.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHERNO.
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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revere
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with CHERNO.
'revere' is a psychological found footage horror game where every detail matters. Prepare yourself for an experience where your sanity will be condemned.
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MITE - Terror in the forest
Free-to-play alternative to CHERNO — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with CHERNO.
MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .