Free games like Hold The Roost
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Hold The Roost, 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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
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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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Roost.
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 Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
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 Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Hold The Roost.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Roost.
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.
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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Roost.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Stray Cats in Cozy Town
Free-to-play alternative to Hold The Roost — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Hold The Roost.
Welcome to Cozy Town, where every day is International Cat Day! Be part of a village community where every stray is respected, loved and fed. Explore the charming streets and alleys to discover all the stray cats in this hidden-object game.