Free games like Sustained
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Sustained, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Sustained.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Sustained.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — 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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Sustained.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sustained.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Sustained.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Sustained.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Wires And Whiskers
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Sustained.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Fallen Earth Classic
Free-to-play alternative to Sustained — no purchase or trial window. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Sustained.
Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.