Free games like Cosmic Outpost
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Cosmic Outpost, 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 Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Travellin Cats in Paris
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
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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Alamet: Interstellar Wars
Free-to-play alternative to Cosmic Outpost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Build your star system. Arm nine planets. Then raid real commanders while they sleep — and watch them raid you back. Asynchronous 1v1 base battles, clan wars, and a loot economy where your ore is never safe.