Single-player games like Brukel
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Brukel, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Tombeaux
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
A short, interactive historical experience set in a historically accurate 3D environment. Explore the convergence between cultures and the environment across a few hundred years of American history.
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Grief like a stray dog
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.
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Ship Explorer
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You know their stories. Now it's time to step aboard! Board iconic ocean liner and warships from history like SS United States, Morro Castle and more as you explore and learn about the secrets that made them into legends.
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Time Machine Bronzeville
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
A storytelling game that explores the stories, cityscape, and legend and lore of Chicago’s South Side ca. 1940. Encounter both heroes and scoundrels in 3D interactive scenes that transport the visitor into detailed recreations of this vanished community as it was between the World Wars.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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红楼梦 Stone Story
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
This product is the world's first artifical intelligent noval game. This game is adapted from one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, "Dream of the Red Chamber." "Dream of the Red Chamber." is summit of the Chinese traditional Noval.
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The Town of Light
Single-player alternative to Brukel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Brukel.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.