Free games like Project Coreward
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Project Coreward, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Project Coreward page.
Ranked picks
- 1
ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
- 2
The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Project Coreward.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
- 3
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
- 4
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
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.
- 5
The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — 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!
- 6
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
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.
- 7
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
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.
- 8
93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Coreward.
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.
- 9
Starship Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Project Coreward — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and RPG with Project Coreward.
Explore a scientifically accurate Milky Way galaxy and discover distant uncharted worlds, while having unrestricted access to every deck of your Magellan Class deep space exploration vessel. Interact with numerous fully simulated ship systems, or simply relax in the bar and watch the stars drift by.