Free games like Lantern
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Lantern, 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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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — 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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
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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Fishing Planet
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window.
Fishing Planet® is a free-to-play and highly realistic first-person online multiplayer fishing simulator. Developed by avid fishing enthusiasts to bring you the full thrill of actual angling on your PC.
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Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
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The Plan
Free-to-play alternative to Lantern — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lantern.
A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.