Free games like Factions: Origins of Malu
Below are 10 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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Ultra Fight Da ! Kyanta 2
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
Ultra Fight Kyanta 2 is a fighting game with a frantic pace and easy to learn controls. You can perform special attacks using single button presses! Fight in 2D battles across various modes using teams of hand-drawn characters.
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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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Pixel Legacy
Free-to-play alternative to Factions: Origins of Malu — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Factions: Origins of Malu.
current features: - creating worlds - playing online with people - claiming worlds - breaking blocks - wearing clothing