Free games like HOST
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to HOST, 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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with HOST.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — 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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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to HOST — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
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.