Free games like Factorwave
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Factorwave, 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 Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Factorwave.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorwave.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Factorwave — 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 Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Factorwave.
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 Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorwave.
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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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Factorwave.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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DOGWALK
Free-to-play alternative to Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Factorwave.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Factorwave — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Factorwave.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.