Free games like Defiant Ascent
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Defiant Ascent, 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 Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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 Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defiant Ascent.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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 Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — 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!
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Bleeding Abyss
Free-to-play alternative to Defiant Ascent — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
Bleeding Abyss is a chaotic, fast paced, overwhelming bullet hell game. Plan and manage your survival by investing your hard earned rewards into resources and unravel the secrets that lie in the underground. Do you have what it takes to escape?