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 weird free-to-play Steam games for you.
Updated on February 28, 2023 by Sharnelle Earle: Steam's library is endless. There are tons of games that a lot of people don't even know exist on the platform. Sure, you can browse the Featured store page and all the popular, most-played games, but you would be missing out on some hidden gems. We have added even more fun free games to save your wallet from the pain of buying a new game for you and a friend to play next weekend.
15 Just Act Natural
Just Act Natural is an online party game where you can play with up to eight friends or strangers. The game is that of hide and seek, where you must blend in with the world around you. One person is the seeker and must find all the other players hiding in plain sight.
There is a paid version of the game that allows you to play in different game modes, but the free version is enough for a game night with friends and gives you a taste of the pie. Just Act Natural uses real clay figures made by the developers and artists behind the game, which are then scanned into the game.
14 Handshakes
Handshakes is a Sokoban puzzle game. This is a puzzle game that involves surpassing obstacles and challenges in order to make two hands touch. It is a simple puzzle game that works the mind and comes at no cost to you.
Sokoban was an old '80s Japanese video game where you would move boxes into storage in a similar fashion. Though this is a flash puzzle game, you can actually play with a friend. Both of you can control either hand and work towards meeting for a good old fashioned handshake.
13 Goose Goose Duck
Goose Goose Duck is one of the many social deduction games available on the market. The difference here is that Goose Goose Duck is completely free. All players are different types of cute ducks and geese and must work together to find the evil, murderous birds among you.
Very similar to the popular game Among Us, but free and with birds. This is a well-rounded game with private and public lobbies, proximity chat, multiple cosmetics, and multiple game modes for you and your friends to enjoy.
12 Banana Shooter
Bananas are a rare and valuable resource that all players desire in Banana Shooter. This is a multiplayer battle arena-style game where everyone has to kill each other in order to earn more and more bananas.
You can unlock upgrades and guns and explore different maps as you try to become the supreme banana man. This is a silly shooter that started as a small project for CodingDaniel and will give you some fun hours for one night.
11 Drunk Wrestlers 2
Drunk Wrestlers was a well-received free game in 2013, and Oleg Skutte graciously gave us a second game in 2019. Better graphics, ragdoll physics, and fun to be had.
This is a physics-based multiplayer game where you and another player must box each other until one reigns supreme. Learn the physics of the game to hit your opponent where it hurts and see new ragdoll animations every time. The game has huge mod support for those who want to take things to the next level with maps.
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 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 overhears 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 allow 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 with your mind as it has adorable cartoons, faces, and colors. Yet, when you actually focus on what they are... Well, that is for you to experience.