Free games like Dear Diary
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Dear Diary, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
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 Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
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 Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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PROPERTY INSPECTION
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
Property Inspection is a short first-person psychological horror game about completing a routine inspection of Unit 47. Examine the apartment, document structural issues, follow your checklist, and finish the job when the final task stops making sense.
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Dear Diary — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Dear Diary.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.