Free games like After The War
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to After The War, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with After The War.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with After The War.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with After The War.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with After The War.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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OnlyCans: Thirst Date
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with After The War.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with After The War.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Simulation with After The War.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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WWII Online
Free-to-play alternative to After The War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with After The War.
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!