Free games like Noctropolis
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Noctropolis, 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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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
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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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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Lily's Well
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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A Space For The Unbound - Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Noctropolis — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Prologue chapter of A Space For The Unbound, an upcoming slice-of-life adventure game with beautiful pixelart set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about overcoming anxiety, depression, and the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers