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Free games like ExoColony: Planet Survival

Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to ExoColony: Planet Survival, 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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Ranked picks

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    Ultimate Custom Night — Steam game cover

    Ultimate Custom Night

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    Magic Archery — Steam game cover

    Magic Archery

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    The Lab — Steam game cover

    The Lab

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    SuchArt: Creative Space — Steam game cover

    SuchArt: Creative Space

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    Samorost 1 — Steam game cover

    Samorost 1

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

    2021IndieAdventureCasualFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    Outpath: First Journey — Steam game cover

    Outpath: First Journey

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    South Scrimshaw, Part One — Steam game cover

    South Scrimshaw, Part One

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    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.

    2023IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    The Riftbreaker: Prologue — Steam game cover

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    Free-to-play alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →