Free games like Homebrew - Patent Unknown
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Homebrew - Patent Unknown, 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 Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
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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Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
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AirMech
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
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Upload Labs
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
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Screw Drivers
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.
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The Planet Crafter: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
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Istrolid
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.
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Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Homebrew - Patent Unknown — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.