Free games like Dark Star
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Dark Star, 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 Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
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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OnlyCans: Thirst Date
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Star.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
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 Dark Star — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Star.
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!