Free games like Project Pixel
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Project Pixel, 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 Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Project Pixel.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Project Pixel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Project Pixel.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Pixel.
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 Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Project Pixel.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Project Pixel.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Pixel.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Project Pixel.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Barfy's Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Project Pixel.
Barfy's Adventure is a fast-paced platformer about collecting gears, dashing through enemies, switching gravity, and so much more!
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Tomb Rumble
Free-to-play alternative to Project Pixel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Project Pixel.
Tomb Rumble is a pixel art MMO platformer, where adventurers compete to retreive ancient treasures in lost temples, cursed ruins and more. Push other players into deadly traps to be the first to escape !... or be the one to fall in a lava pit.