Free games like From Dust
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to From Dust, 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 Looker
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — 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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Floating Point
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
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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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
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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Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
Free-to-play alternative to From Dust — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.