Free games like Starfend
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Starfend, 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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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — 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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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Casual with Starfend.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Starfend.
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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of the Devil
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Starfend.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
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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South Scrimshaw, Part One
Free-to-play alternative to Starfend — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.