Free games like The Planetarian
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Planetarian, 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 The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with The Planetarian.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
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 The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — 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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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Planetarian.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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South Scrimshaw, Part One
Free-to-play alternative to The Planetarian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with The Planetarian.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.