Free games like Battle Waves: Card Tactics
Below are 11 free-to-play Steam games similar to Battle Waves: Card Tactics, 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 Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
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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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — 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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CRAP
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
A Card Multiplay Auto Battler. Choose your Hero. Select a Supporter and start searching for an enemy. Choose wisely between Artefacts, Statcards and Weapons to win against your oponent. Win the Best of 3 and get Rankpoints ;)
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Advent Arena
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
A card-game/tower-defense hybrid. Play solo or with a partner to level up your hero, summon creatures, and cast spells to take down your foes in online multiplayer. Employ any of many diverse strategies in quick matches. Collect and deploy every unique and quirky hero and card for free.
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Minion Masters
Free-to-play alternative to Battle Waves: Card Tactics — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Waves: Card Tactics.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!