Free games like Defendor
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Defendor, 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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
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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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Disfigure
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — 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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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Netherspace
Free-to-play alternative to Defendor — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Defendor.
A sci-fi shoot'em'up game with heavy focus on upgrades experimentation, featuring two unlikely heroes that must work perfectly together, despite their share of secrets, to surpass their limits and succeed in eliminating a threat that might destroy both Earth and Andraxia if left unchecked.