Free games like Fortain
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Fortain, 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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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fortain.
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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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Fortain.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fortain.
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 Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fortain.
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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Fortain.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fortain.
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 Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fortain.
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 Fortain — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fortain.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.