Free games like Planet Pioneers
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Planet Pioneers, 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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
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 Planet Pioneers — 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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An Arcade Full of Cats
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
『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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
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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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Planet Pioneers — no purchase or trial window.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.