Free games like Defense Grid: The Awakening
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Defense Grid: The Awakening, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — 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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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
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Tep The Destroyer TD
Free-to-play alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
TEP the destroyer is a single player tower defense game where you will face alien monsters and ships in ground and space battles! Your strategy will decide the fate of your people in a sci-fi environment of varying difficulties!