Free games like New Stars
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to New Stars, 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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — 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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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with New Stars.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with New Stars.
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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South Scrimshaw, Part One
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with New Stars.
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.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with New Stars.
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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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Stars.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with New Stars.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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SCP – Containment Breach
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with New Stars.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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Nexus Legacy
Free-to-play alternative to New Stars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Stars.
Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.