Free games like Modern Wars
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Modern Wars, 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 Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Modern Wars — 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 Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Modern Wars.
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 Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
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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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Early Access with Modern Wars.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Aircar
Free-to-play alternative to Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Modern Wars.
A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.
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Meteor 60 Seconds!
Free-to-play alternative to Modern Wars — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?