Free games like StarDrive
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to StarDrive, 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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
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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Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
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Learn to Fly 3
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
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War Selection
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
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Endless Sky
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with StarDrive.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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AirMech
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
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Antimatter Dimensions
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!
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Zero-K
Free-to-play alternative to StarDrive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarDrive.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.