Free games like Ancient Cities
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Ancient Cities, 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 Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Ancient Cities.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ancient Cities.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ancient Cities.
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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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — 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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93, Kuindzhi
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Ancient Cities.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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DORONKO WANKO
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Ancient Cities.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ancient Cities.
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 Ancient Cities — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ancient Cities.
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!