Free games like Desert of Vice
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Desert of Vice, 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 Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Pathologic 3: Quarantine
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.
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Alpha Polaris : A Horror Adventure Game
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Alpha Polaris is an oldschool adventure game focusing on slow-burning character driven horror and environmental themes. It draws inspiration from such sources as Inuit legends and Cthulhu mythos.
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Doorways: Old Prototype
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga
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Curse of the Old Gods
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Desert of Vice.
A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.
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The Land of Crows
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
"The Land of Crows" is a side-scroller gothic story adventure game, inspired by the literary works of the Masters of pre-romantic, romantic and gothic literature (E.A. Poe, J.W. Goethe, A. Mickiewicz, J. Slowacki) and lovecraftian mythos.
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The 111th Soul
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another
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Cyrano Story
Free-to-play alternative to Desert of Vice — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Born from an Alternate Reality Game experience created by Alice & Smith in 2019, Cyrano Story is a complex puzzle game designed to ascend to intergalactic forces and give insight into the backstory of Funcom’s cosmic horror game Moons of Madness.