Free games like Ballad of Solar
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Ballad of Solar, 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 Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — 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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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Mitoza
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Ballad of Solar — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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!