Free games like Time Boxing
Below are 12 free-to-play Steam games similar to Time Boxing, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Time Boxing.
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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Helltaker
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Time Boxing.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Time Boxing.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Time Boxing.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Time Boxing.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
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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Legacy: The Card Game
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window.
A free 1v1 card game with a twist: both players summon Foes onto one shared field, which either of you can kill for Legacy points. It's your Legend versus theirs to see who can leave behind the greatest Legacy. Use strategy to play cards that help you, hurt them, or add some chaos to the mix.
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Xeno Strike
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
Build your collection, construct decks, and duel against other players in a sci-fi card battler.
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Darcnia Monster
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
Place a card and its monster rises onto the board. A tactical card game, online and free, with no pay to win: every card is earned by playing, never from a gacha, and traded with other players in the Trade Hall and the Auction House.
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Chrono CCG
Free-to-play alternative to Time Boxing — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Time Boxing.
Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.