Free games like Quarantine 16
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Quarantine 16, 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 Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Quarantine 16.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Quarantine 16.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Quarantine 16.
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 Quarantine 16 — 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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Quarantine 16.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Quarantine 16.
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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Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Quarantine 16.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Quarantine 16.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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OrbitalCrash
Free-to-play alternative to Quarantine 16 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Quarantine 16.
Battle across arenas where gravity plays by different rules — flat ground, cube faces, or planet curves. Kick, grab, grapple, and shoot enemies into their doom, then grab mid-match upgrades to power up your build on the fly.