Free games like The Box is Alive
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Box is Alive, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Box is Alive.
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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Box is Alive.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Box is Alive.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Box is Alive.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Box is Alive.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Box is Alive.
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 The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Box is Alive.
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 The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Box is Alive.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Octodad (Student Edition)
Free-to-play alternative to The Box is Alive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Box is Alive.
You are Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family!