Free games like Empires in Ruins
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Empires in Ruins, 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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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empires in Ruins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires in Ruins.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires in Ruins.
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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The Last Sovereign
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires in Ruins.
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 Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empires in Ruins.
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!
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Dota 2
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Empires in Ruins.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Muck
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empires in Ruins.
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
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Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
Free-to-play alternative to Empires in Ruins — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Empires in Ruins.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.