Free games like Dark Matter
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Dark Matter, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Matter — 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!