Free games like The First Explorers®
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The First Explorers®, 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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — 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 The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
『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 The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with The First Explorers®.
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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Early Access with The First Explorers®.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Aircar
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window.
A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.
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Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The First Explorers® — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.