Free games like Nearwood - Collector's Edition
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Nearwood - Collector's Edition, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nearwood - Collector's Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nearwood - Collector's Edition.
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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Travellin Cats in Paris
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nearwood - Collector's Edition.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — 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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An Arcade Full of Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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100 Asian Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Nearwood - Collector's Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Nearwood - Collector's Edition.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.