Free games like Airborne Empire
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Airborne Empire, 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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Airborne Empire.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Airborne Empire — 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 Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airborne Empire.
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 Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Empire.
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 Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Airborne Empire.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Empire.
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 Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Airborne Empire.
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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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Free-to-play alternative to Airborne Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Airborne Empire.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!