Free games like Lateral Crawl
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Lateral Crawl, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Lateral Crawl.
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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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Lateral Crawl — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories