Free games like Empty Horizons
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Empty Horizons, 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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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
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Tailor Tales
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Empty Horizons.
Play as an aspiring fashion designer with your own boutique and experience a heart pounding romance.
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Tell Me Why
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Narcissu 1st & 2nd
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than "on 7F" or "at home".
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Empty Horizons — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.