Free games like Shadowlight
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Shadowlight, 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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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowlight.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowlight.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadowlight.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Shadowlight.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowlight.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Moonring
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares RPG with Shadowlight.
A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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OneBit Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Shadowlight — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowlight.
OneBit Adventure is a casual turn-based roguelike where you adventure as far as possible to level up and battle against rogue monsters. Your primary goal in OneBit Adventure is to survive and loot. Choose from a variety of classes and build the ultimate class.