Free games like Waves of Death
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Waves of Death, 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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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Waves of Death.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Waves of Death.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Iron Snout
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Star Fetchers
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
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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Unturned
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to Waves of Death — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Death.
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.