Free games like Rivals Basketball
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Rivals Basketball, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Rivals Basketball.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rivals Basketball.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Rivals Basketball.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rivals Basketball.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Rivals Basketball.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Rivals Basketball.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Rivals Basketball.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — 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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REK
Free-to-play alternative to Rivals Basketball — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Sports with Rivals Basketball.
A robot fighting simulator powered by the same AI as our real world humanoid robots. Become Pro in the Sim and qualify for fighting real robots at live REK events.