Free games like Ash & Rust
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Ash & Rust, 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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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Ash & Rust.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
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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Wheelchair Wizards
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Ash & Rust.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Wires And Whiskers
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Path of Exile
Free-to-play alternative to Ash & Rust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Ash & Rust.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.