Free games like Star Scum
Below are 14 free-to-play Steam games similar to Star Scum, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — 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 Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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 Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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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Xeno Strike
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Build your collection, construct decks, and duel against other players in a sci-fi card battler.
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Tank General
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Tank General, a World War II-themed card game with unique gameplay mechanics, deep tactical combat, and an easy entry level. Build your deck, battle against humans and AI, complete campaigns and raids, and explore new cards and headquarters!
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Anachron
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
What if Joan of Arc fought alongside Blackbeard? In Anachron, you weave a dream team of 4 historical heroes to clash in a tactical, turn-based Arena. Build a custom deck for each champion from their unique abilities and unleash history-defying combos.
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Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Star Squadrons is a fast-paced, tactical sci-fi card game WITHOUT MANA, where you deploy cards face down, interact nonstop, and win through clever location control. Secure your Founder status ahead of the Kickstarter in late 2026 / early 2027! Play the browser-based Early Alpha now!
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Hackagon: Cyber Card Battler
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
HACKAGON is a fast 1v1 cyber card battler. Breach the network with the red team or defend it with the blue team. Cards are played face-down and revealed at the same time, so victory comes from reading your opponent, not moving first. Build your 12-card deck, claim the areas, and take the network.
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Grid Tactics: Duel
Free-to-play alternative to Star Scum — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Grid Tactics: Duel is a competitive card game built on an 8×8 grid. Every move is about positioning, timing, and resource trade-offs. With limited resources, choose when and where to play—set up or apply pressure. Each placement reshapes the board. Win through deckbuilding and precise execution.