Free games like Aethyr Idle
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Aethyr Idle, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Aethyr Idle.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Aethyr Idle.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and RPG with Aethyr Idle.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Aethyr Idle.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Aethyr Idle.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Aethyr Idle.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Aethyr Idle — 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!