Free games like Stardust Exile
Below are 14 free-to-play Steam games similar to Stardust Exile, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — 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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
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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DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Stardust Exile.
《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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Dota 2
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Stardust Exile.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Warframe
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
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Veyrasol
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
Veyrasol is a real-time MMO strategy game set in the Veyra Spiral galaxy. Build colonies, command fleets, forge alliances, and battle for dominance across ~120-day seasons in this free-to-play browser-born strategy experience.
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TON Wars
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
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Foundation: Galactic Frontier
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Command Asimov's OFFICIAL Foundation universe! Live the life as an interstellar trader to exploit your trade routes! Build your starship home, crush enemies in explosive shootouts & outsmart rivals with fleet strategies in epic space wars - with new content expanding your saga!
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Galaxor
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.
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Hades' Star
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
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Stronghold Kingdoms
Free-to-play alternative to Stardust Exile — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!