Free games like POLARIS™
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to POLARIS™, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with POLARIS™.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window.
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 POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with POLARIS™.
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 POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with POLARIS™.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with POLARIS™.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — 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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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with POLARIS™.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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WWII Online
Free-to-play alternative to POLARIS™ — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with POLARIS™.
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!