Free games like Homeworld Defense
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Homeworld Defense, 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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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homeworld Defense.
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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Homeworld Defense.
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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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Homeworld Defense.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Clicker Heroes
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Homeworld Defense.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Bloons TD Battles
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Homeworld Defense.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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Blackwake
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Homeworld Defense.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
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Darwin Project
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Homeworld Defense.
In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.
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Transformice
Free-to-play alternative to Homeworld Defense — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Homeworld Defense.
Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!