Free games like Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword, 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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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword — 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!