Free games like City Play
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to City Play, 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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Kingdom: Classic
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
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Realm Grinder
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with City Play.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
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Let's School Homeroom
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with City Play.
Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!
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Oxygen: First Breath
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
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TM - Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
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Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with City Play.
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
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United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
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These Doomed Isles: The First God
Free-to-play alternative to City Play — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more!