Free games like The Cycle: Frontier
Below are 11 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Cycle: Frontier, 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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
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 The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
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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The Looker
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
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 The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
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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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Destiny 2
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
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Apex Legends™
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
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Delta Force
Free-to-play alternative to The Cycle: Frontier — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with The Cycle: Frontier.
Play for free in operator-based extraction and full-scale combined arms warfare. Become elite Operators, customize an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, and deploy into thrill-packed missions across multiple modes.