Free games like Exertion
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Exertion, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Exertion.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — 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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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Exertion — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Exertion.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.