Free games like Z Diaries
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Z Diaries, 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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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
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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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window.
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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Saihate Station
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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one night, hot springs
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Mitoza
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.
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Lily's Well
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to Z Diaries — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Z Diaries.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.