Free games like Manifold Garden
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Manifold Garden, 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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Waves
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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![Close Your Eyes [Old Version] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/377330/c8d8c555e37e28190ecd34dae23ca4b0d73ce5bc/header.jpg?t=1746732306)
Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
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YIIK Nameless Psychosis
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Off-Peak
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
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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NaissanceE
Free-to-play alternative to Manifold Garden — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.