Free games like Mineral Defense
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Mineral Defense, 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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Mineral Defense.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Mineral Defense.
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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mineral Defense.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Mineral Defense.
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 Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Mineral Defense.
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.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mineral Defense.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Mineral Defense.
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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South Scrimshaw, Part One
Free-to-play alternative to Mineral Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Mineral Defense.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.