Free games like Shadows of Beginnings
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Shadows of Beginnings, 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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Shadows of Beginnings — 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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World of ClaudeCraft
Free-to-play alternative to Shadows of Beginnings — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
A classic-style micro-MMO: nine vanilla-flavored classes, real classic-era combat formulas, a hand-built quest world across three zones, 5-player elite dungeons, a ranked 1v1 arena, parties, trading and duels — on an authoritative server with persistent characters.