Free games like Vortex
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Vortex, 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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
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 Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
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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Floating Point
Free-to-play alternative to Vortex — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.