Free games like Spate
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Spate, 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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the static speaks my name
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.
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Port of Call
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
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Off-Peak
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.
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Yume Nikki
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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Awkward Dimensions Redux
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...
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The Old Tree
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.
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9.03m
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Spate.
The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures. 9.03m is set on Baker Beach in San Francisco, where debris from the tsunami has washed ashore in the years following the tsunami. To play, you must find the butterflies.
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Marie's Room
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
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NaissanceE
Free-to-play alternative to Spate — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spate.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.