Free games like Anomaly Defenders
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Anomaly Defenders, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly Defenders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly Defenders.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — 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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Anomaly Defenders.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly Defenders.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly Defenders.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Splitgate
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly Defenders.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Limbus Company
Free-to-play alternative to Anomaly Defenders — no purchase or trial window.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.