Free games like Once Up
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Once Up, 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 Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Once Up.
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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Once Up.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
- 3
ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Once Up.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
- 4
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Up.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Once Up.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Once Up.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Up.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Once Up.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Sugar & Rolling Stone
Free-to-play alternative to Once Up — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Up.
"Sugar & Rolling Stone" is a retro style side view puzzle game. Control the explorer Rolling Stone and help Sugar, a girl with a magical key, reach the locked door safely. Use various objects to create paths, solve puzzles, and enjoy their adventure!