Free games like The Shedding
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Shedding, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shedding.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shedding.
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 Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shedding.
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 The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shedding.
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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Trick & Treat
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shedding.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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Tiny Bunny: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shedding.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shedding.
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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Aimlabs
Free-to-play alternative to The Shedding — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Shedding.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!