Free games like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation, 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 Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Aircar
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window.
A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.
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Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
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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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Free-to-play alternative to The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation.
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!