Free games like Nation
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Nation, 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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — 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 Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nation.
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 Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nation.
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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Samorost 1
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nation.
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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nation.
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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NERTS! Online
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
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Mizi NO!
Free-to-play alternative to Nation — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.
In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.