Free games like Soft Ruin
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Soft Ruin, 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 Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Soft Ruin.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Soft Ruin.
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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Soft Ruin.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Soft Ruin.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Soft Ruin.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Soft Ruin.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Swing Rush
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Soft Ruin.
Can you push your jumping, crawling and swinging skills? Challenge yourself in this physics-driven swinging game! Complete races, gather collectibles and master your momentum!
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TomoTomo
Free-to-play alternative to Soft Ruin — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Soft Ruin.
TomoTomo is a platformer semi-open world city with an early 2000s Japanese aesthetics. Roam freely through the streets and rooftops of Yōhōbakoto, our goal ? Collect batteries, unlock your RAM upgrades and restore your lost abilities, all while staying one step ahead of the city's patrol units.