Steam is full of thousands and thousands of video games of all sizes, genres, and prices. Most people look through their premade discovery list or the main featured store page for the most popular games. But the real gold lies in deep diving through lists of old, unknown, and strange games sitting in Steam’s cobwebbed library.
Many people don’t have the patience or don’t know how to dig deep and discover games, especially free ones! Have you ever felt the urge to get a new game or try something new, but didn’t want to spend the money? Well, we have compiled a list of 10 weird free-to-play Steam games for you!
10 How To Cope With Boredom And Loneliness
This right here is a simulation of a documented film about a man who has been punished and grounded for life! Harold Fletcher lives in his childhood bedroom at age 43, suffering from boredom and loneliness.
You play as a journalist known as Nigel Wimble who personally goes to investigate this strange situation. As you progress through the story, you learn more about Harold and how one copes with such a peculiar situation in this point-and-click adventure.
9 The Terrible Old Man
The Terrible Old Man is a point-and-click adventure taking on the category of Lovecraftian horror as the developer Cloak and Dagger Games recreates their version of the widely-known story.
You start off as three buddies in a bar, with a fondness for money, who overhear a story of a decrepit, rich old man in town. This eerie adventure runs very short but leaves you wanting more. With fully hand-drawn graphics, the game is styled in a cinematic way that makes you feel as if you’re watching a movie and that there is a prequel to come.
8 My Name Is You. And It’s The Only Unusual Thing In My Life.
This long-titled game is an interactive, choices matter type of experience. You play as, well, You, and you go about life and discuss things that aren’t really that significant. The game is very philosophical in its structure and descriptions and it’s definitely something one would have to experience for themselves.
My Name Is You has various different endings, increasing replay value, and is a must for those who enjoy things that don’t give you all the answers and allows you to think and decide for yourself.
7 Off-Peak
Off-Peak is a strange, slightly uncomfortable walking simulator in which you walk around a peculiar train station in the distant future. You get to explore the ominous world around you, discover, and interact with the characters.
Some people may find this one very hilarious and fun, and others might be weirded out and turned off. Either way, it’s an experience to be had. Off-Peak has different themes, characters, and stories that just are, and it’s up to the player to take what they want out of the game.
6 Morok
Yet another hand-drawn visual novel set somewhere in northern Russia, Morok is an uncanny yet alluring game that takes you into a cold village where you wake up with amnesia.
Not knowing where you are, or who you are, the inhabitants of this unknown village seem to know you for some odd reason, and you struggle to figure out what is going on. This is undeniably a game for people who enjoy rainy days and vague discussions that somehow mean something deeper than what’s on the surface.
5 Survivor
With the overall review rating on Steam listed as Mixed, it seems that Survivor is an unusual game that only some people find the ending to and only some people can appreciate. In the game, you play a somewhat different version of the hit TV show Survivor where a host brings a group of people to a remote island to live off the land by themselves.
Different Steam reviews discuss that there are different, true endings that are hard to find. Playing with odd, characterized yet empty 3D models playing along with you in big empty rooms, this game is decidedly more sinister than the show.
4 The Old Tree
We bet you’ve all been wondering, “What is it like to be an alien baby?” Well, wonder no more, good people. The Old Tree is a surreal point-and-click adventure in which you play an alien baby and help it discover the world above the dark cave it came from.
Containing different puzzles and locations with a stylish art form, Red Dwarf Games has created something not entirely creepy but not entirely adorable, either! Slither your way to freedom, alien baby!
3 Paunch
Not many words are needed here. Just some grown, half-naked men slapping each other up on a vast, wide-open field. Paunch is a ridiculously silly free-to-play game where you do one on one duels with people online, or with your friends, to see who will reign victorious.
Punch your way to the top—heck, use rocks if you have to! There is no time to lose, get those sumo-undies on and let’s get smackin'!
2 Wurroom
Wurroom is a psychedelic point-and-click adventure where you explore the universe itself and interact with outlandish creatures and objects and… Creature-objects?
Power through the imaginations of creators Michael Rifdshir and Serge Bulat as you play with their stop-motion claymation adventure and attempt to decipher the world at hand, or watch it decipher you.
1 The Good Time Garden
With adorably hand-drawn art reminiscent of cartoons from Cartoon Network, The Good Time Garden offers us the fleshy world we so clearly desire. In this strange indie-adventure, you play a little flesh-boy looking for food for his friend.
Paired with mild nudity and mild language, this is a game that conflicts your mind as it has adorable cartoons, faces, and colors. Yet, when you actually focus on what they are… well, it’s for you to experience.
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