Free games like Idle Hands
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Idle Hands, 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 Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window.
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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — 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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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Hands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window.
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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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Hands.
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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![We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1103210/header.jpg?t=1563495717)
We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Hands.
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
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Floating Point
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Hands.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Idlepunk - Ghost Link
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window.
Set in the cyberpunk corpo-state of NewHaven, IDLEPUNK is a story-driven idle management RPG. Recruit and equip a crew of operatives, take on contracts across a hostile city, build your reputation, and uncover the stories behind the people working for you.
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Entropy Archive
Free-to-play alternative to Idle Hands — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Idle Hands.
Uncover a collapsing machine of endless growth, hidden systems, and recursive resets. Generate energy, unlock expansions, recover corrupted records, and descend deeper into the Archive.