Free games like From The Dark
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to From The Dark, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with From The Dark.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with From The Dark.
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 From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with From The Dark.
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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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with From The Dark.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with From The Dark.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with From The Dark.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to From The Dark — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with From The Dark.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.