Free games like Hawthorn
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Hawthorn, 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 Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Hawthorn.
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 Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
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 Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Hawthorn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
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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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Hawthorn — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hawthorn.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Hawthorn — 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!