Free games like By My Side
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to By My Side, 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
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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Tukoni: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Liquidators
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
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Stray Cats in Cozy Town
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with By My Side.
Welcome to Cozy Town, where every day is International Cat Day! Be part of a village community where every stray is respected, loved and fed. Explore the charming streets and alleys to discover all the stray cats in this hidden-object game.
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Children of Silentown: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
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Muck
Free-to-play alternative to By My Side — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.