Free games like Hold the Core
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Hold the Core, 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
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — 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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Hold the Core.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Splitgate
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Limbus Company
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
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Clicker Heroes
Free-to-play alternative to Hold the Core — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold the Core.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.