Free games like Eternal
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Eternal, 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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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Eternal.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Eternal.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Eternal.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Eternal.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Eternal.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Eternal.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Eternal — no purchase or trial window.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...