Free games like A Story of Distress
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to A Story of Distress, 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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — 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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story of Distress.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
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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Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story of Distress.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
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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Clicker Heroes
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Bloons TD Battles
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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One-armed robber
Free-to-play alternative to A Story of Distress — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.