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Free games like Brutal War

Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Brutal War, 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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    Control, I'm Not Coming Back — Steam game cover

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 — Steam game cover

    I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedFree to playSimilar games →
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    Chicken Invaders Universe — Steam game cover

    Chicken Invaders Universe

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.

    2022ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    Exo One: Prologue — Steam game cover

    Exo One: Prologue

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulationFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    Animyst — Steam game cover

    Animyst

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    Explore a strange and dark afterlife as the Undead. Inhabit the body of a Skeleton or Fleshy Corpse and build a new life in The Droughts, a giant desert of ancient ruins and occult monsters. Craft powerful spells and befriend or battle other players in a single open online world...

    2018ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →
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    Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition — Steam game cover

    Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Brutal War.

    This is an outdated, public beta for Siren's Call: Escape Velocity. Home is where your body is. And like any good tourist trap, Siren’s Call will do whatever it can to keep you there as long as possible. They will drag you down like crabs in a bucket. They will make this place home.

    2022AdventureFree To PlayCasualFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    Destination Primus Vita - Ep. 1 — Steam game cover

    Destination Primus Vita - Ep. 1

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Destination Primus Vita is a narrative, first-person and episodic puzzle game set in a science-fiction universe. Follow the adventures of our main six characters: Austin, Hayao, Artemis, BrX, Geny and Coby as they travel across the cosmos to Primus Vita to complete their vital mission… to save life on Earth!

    2018IndieAdventureCasualFreeFree to playSimilar games →
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    MITE - Terror in the forest — Steam game cover

    MITE - Terror in the forest

    Free-to-play alternative to Brutal War — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .

    2023ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableFree to playSimilar games →