Free games like Tales of Shandar
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Tales of Shandar, 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 Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Tales of Shandar.
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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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Tales of Shandar.
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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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Tales of Shandar.
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.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — 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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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Tales of Shandar.
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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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Tales of Shandar.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Tales of Shandar — no purchase or trial window.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...