Free games like Empire Earth II: Gold Edition
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition, 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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Minion Masters
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
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Eternal Return
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
Eternal Return is a free-to-play, 2.5D perspective Battle Royale game. Search, Craft, Hunt, and Fight using a variety of characters. Plan your strategy and become the last survivor on this eternal experiment.
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Istrolid
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.
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Star Realms
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!
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Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.
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Dwarfs - F2P
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.
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Zombie Defense
Free-to-play alternative to Empire Earth II: Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth II: Gold Edition.
A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.