Free games like Shelf Life 2
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Shelf Life 2, 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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shelf Life 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life 2.
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 Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Shelf Life 2.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shelf Life 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Shelf Life 2.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — 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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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shelf Life 2.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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of the Devil
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shelf Life 2.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Shelf Life
Free-to-play alternative to Shelf Life 2 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life 2.
Shelf Life is an action FPS set in a near future conglomerate, that will seem eerily familiar if you spend your time around online dumpster fires. Use your arsenal of weapons to shoot, burn and fungible-ize your way through the Edison facility fighting a lizardy hostile takeover.