Free games like Guardians of Elderon
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Guardians of Elderon, 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 Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with Guardians of Elderon.
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 Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Free To Play with Guardians of Elderon.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Free To Play with Guardians of Elderon.
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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Guardians of Elderon.
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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Guardians of Elderon.
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!
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with Guardians of Elderon.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window.
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!
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Iron Pact
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Guardians of Elderon.
A persistent, planet-scale real-time strategy MMO on one shared Earth. Forge alliances or betray them, hold your supply lines, and live with every mile of ground you take or lose. Real-time fronts that never pause. No rounds, no resets.
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Evolution Tag 2
Free-to-play alternative to Guardians of Elderon — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Guardians of Elderon.
A unique twist on the MOBA genre. Evolve, survive, build bases, control armies, and fight other players in an intense 10vs5 match between humans and the undead. There is also a multiplayer PvE survival game mode, and a multiplayer RPG mode!