Free games like Bad Summer
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Bad Summer, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window.
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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
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 Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
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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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
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 Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
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 Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Our Wonderland
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
A horror-fantasy visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Free-to-play alternative to Bad Summer — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Bad Summer.
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..."