Free games like Cardboard Tanks
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Cardboard Tanks, 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 Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Cardboard Tanks.
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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
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 Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Operation P.L.U.S.H
Free-to-play alternative to Cardboard Tanks — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Tanks.
Operation Plush is a 1-4 player horde defender where you take control of dream-powered plushies defending your child's nighlight from the encroaching nightmare horde. Protect the dream, Defend the nightlight, Defeat the darkness