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Free games like The Waking Ashes

Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Waking Ashes, 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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    Ultimate Custom Night — Steam game cover

    Ultimate Custom Night

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Waking Ashes.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    ENA: Dream BBQ — Steam game cover

    ENA: Dream BBQ

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Waking Ashes.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedFree to playSimilar games →
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    Indigo Park: Chapter 1 — Steam game cover

    Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Waking Ashes.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    STRAFTAT — Steam game cover

    STRAFTAT

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Waking Ashes.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    The Looker — Steam game cover

    The Looker

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Waking Ashes.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    The Expendabros — Steam game cover

    The Expendabros

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Waking Ashes.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedFree to playSimilar games →
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    Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft — Steam game cover

    Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Waking Ashes.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedFree to playSimilar games →
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    Century: Age of Ashes — Steam game cover

    Century: Age of Ashes

    Free-to-play alternative to The Waking Ashes — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Waking Ashes.

    Century: Age of Ashes is a free-to-play multiplayer dragon shooter. Master a growing roster of classes and dragons, compete in intense arena battles and rule the skies in fast-paced aerial combats.

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeFree to playSimilar games →