Free games like How Empires Work
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to How Empires Work, 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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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with How Empires Work.
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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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with How Empires Work.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
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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Tukoni: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with How Empires Work.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with How Empires Work.
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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Mizi NO!
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with How Empires Work.
In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.
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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
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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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Free-to-play alternative to How Empires Work — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!