Free games like Planetiles
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Planetiles, 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 Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
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 Planetiles — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
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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Lily's Well
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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DOGWALK
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
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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Mars vs. Robots
Free-to-play alternative to Planetiles — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
Defend Mars from humans