Free games like Periphery Online
Below are 13 free-to-play Steam games similar to Periphery Online, 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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periphery Online.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Periphery Online.
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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DOGWALK
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Periphery Online.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periphery Online.
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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Splitgate
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Periphery Online.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Periphery Online.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Periphery Online.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
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PlanetSide 2
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Periphery Online.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
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Nexus Legacy
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periphery Online.
Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.
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Romans: Age of Caesar
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Periphery Online.
Build Rome Together! A co-operative grand strategy MMO from a team of veteran city builders, Romans: Age of Caesar is the latest historical strategy game from Firefly Studios.
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Instant War
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Periphery Online.
Embark on a military strategy 4X RTS game, in a world where your battle tactics and your massive army are the keys to victory. Instant War delivers an amazing battlefield experience in a realistic military game. As a commander, you develop your military base and lead your army to victory!
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Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periphery Online.
Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.
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Stronghold Kingdoms
Free-to-play alternative to Periphery Online — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Periphery Online.
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!