Free games like Planetary Life
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Planetary Life, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetary Life.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetary Life.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetary Life.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetary Life.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planetary Life.
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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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetary Life.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — 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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An Arcade Full of Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Planetary Life — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Planetary Life.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.