Free games like Lifeline
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Lifeline, 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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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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No Results Found
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Lifeline.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Emily is Away
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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The Last Among The Dead
Free-to-play alternative to Lifeline — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
Dive into a devastated world where survival depends not only on your weapons… but on your choices. In The Last Among The Dead, play as a survivor trapped in a land ravaged by a mysterious infection.