Free games like The Refuge
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Refuge, 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 The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
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 The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
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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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Refuge.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — 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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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Refuge.
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.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Refuge.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Simulation with The Refuge.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Unturned
Free-to-play alternative to The Refuge — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.