Free games like Cats In The Shell
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Cats In The Shell, 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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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Cats In The Shell.
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 Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Cats In The Shell.
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 Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — 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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Electoral Carnage
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Cats In The Shell.
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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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cats In The Shell.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Cats In The Shell.
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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NERTS! Online
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Cats In The Shell.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Cats In The Shell.
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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Norectus: Theatre of War
Free-to-play alternative to Cats In The Shell — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and RPG with Cats In The Shell.
A free-to-play strategy card game where five nations wage war. Build a deck around your Leader, then battle through ranked duels, a 100-floor roguelike, co-op bosses, and clan wars, plus Leader Clash, a full auto-battler mode built into the game.