Free games like Etherium
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Etherium, 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 Etherium — 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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
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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Dota 2
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Warframe
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Splitgate
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
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Crusader Kings II
Free-to-play alternative to Etherium — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.