Free games like Space Run
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Space Run, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
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 Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
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 Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — 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 Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Space Run.
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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Space Cheese Defenders
Free-to-play alternative to Space Run — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
A tower defense game with RTS elements about gathering cheese in space, where mobile carriers are able to deploy smaller spacecraft. Collect cheese to buy and upgrade spaceships and use each type to customize your playstyle and defend your base!