Free games like Ardent: Rise
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Ardent: Rise, 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 Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
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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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
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 Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — 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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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Ardent: Rise.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Eternal Senia
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and RPG with Ardent: Rise.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Epitome
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent: Rise.
Welcome to the system of Epitome. Explore a world woven from the threads of reality.Here, us, the Archons, my creations, rule over their unique realms, shaping and disorting them according to their desires.This is no mere adventure - enter Epitome and strive to become an Archon.
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StoneHold MOBA
Free-to-play alternative to Ardent: Rise — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and RPG with Ardent: Rise.
StoneHold is a free-to-play 5v5 action MOBA where collectible card strategy meets intense third-person combat. Pick a Warden, build a deck, draw by crushing turrets and defeating enemies, then swap cards and skills at base for constant counterplay. UE5 visuals and a world of chiseled stone magic.