Free games like Factions: Origins of Malu
Below are 11 free-to-play Steam games similar to Factions: Origins of Malu, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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 Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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 Factions: Origins of Malu — 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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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 Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Factions: Origins of Malu.
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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Trick & Treat
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Factions: Origins of Malu.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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SMITE 2
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Factions: Origins of Malu.
Become a god and wage war in SMITE 2, the free-to-play Unreal Engine 5-powered sequel to the legendary third-person action MOBA. If you love challenging competition, intense action, ability-driven combat, rewarding teamwork, or godly mythology, you’ll see why 40+ million players love SMITE.
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Shakes and Fidget
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
Shakes & Fidget is a hilarious fantasy role-playing satire and at the same time, an award-winning RPG! Sounds crazy? With over 50 million enthusiastic players, it ranks among the most celebrated online role-playing games worldwide!
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Wild Terra Online
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!