Free games like Banished
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Banished, 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
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Banished.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Banished.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Banished.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Steam Engine Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Banished.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Banished.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Banished.
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 Banished — 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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Floating Point
Free-to-play alternative to Banished — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Banished.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.