Free games like Rakuten
Below are 11 free-to-play Steam games similar to Rakuten, 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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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Rakuten.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rakuten.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — 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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Crazy Foods
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Crazy Foods is a massively multiplayer online battle arena game with upcoming crazy modes where foods are going crazy eliminating each other until one winner or team will get the fork throne! Cute shooter with updated new "FOODBALL" - football match mode! :)
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Blightveil
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Rakuten.
Blightveil is an Action-MOBA with WASD movement and non-targeting combat. Enter a brutal world where the genre takes a fresh twist. Battle in arenas where two teams of four clash for one goal: destroy the enemy relic and become champions.
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Surviv.io - 2D Battle Royale
Free-to-play alternative to Rakuten — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Rakuten.
2D BATTLE ROYALE packed into an intense 3-5 minute experience. No lobbies, no lengthy drop sequences. In surviv.io, you're always in the fight!