Free games like Per Aspera
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Per Aspera, 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 Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — 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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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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!
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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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Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Counter-Strike 2
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
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Dota 2
Free-to-play alternative to Per Aspera — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Per Aspera.
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.