Free games like The Remaining
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Remaining, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Remaining.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Remaining.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Remaining.
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 Remaining — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Remaining.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Remaining.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Remaining.
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 The Remaining — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with The Remaining.
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.