Free games like Aurora Directive
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Aurora Directive, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Aurora Directive.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Aurora Directive.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Aircar
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Aurora Directive.
A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.
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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Wires And Whiskers
Free-to-play alternative to Aurora Directive — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.