Free games like Expedition: Shadow World
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Expedition: Shadow World, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
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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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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South Scrimshaw, Part One
Free-to-play alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.