Free games like Idle Village
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Idle Village, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Village.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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![We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1103210/header.jpg?t=1563495717)
We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Village.
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
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Floating Point
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Village.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Tukoni: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Village.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Village.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Mitoza
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Village — no purchase or trial window.
It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.