Free games like Guardian
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Guardian, 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Adventure with Guardian.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
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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Trick & Treat
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
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You Have to Win the Game
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
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SUCCUBUS: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
Become a demonic priestess of lust and use her unique skills to take revenge on your enemies. Regain your kingdom making hell tremble under your hooves! Leave no one alive if they won't bend the knee.
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The Desolate Hope
Free-to-play alternative to Guardian — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Guardian.
On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.