Single-player games like Iron Brigade
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Iron Brigade, 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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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Iron Brigade.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Iron Brigade.
Thousands of giant insects and aliens once again ravage the earth, and only the Earth Defense Force can stop them.
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Attack on Steel
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
"Attack of Steel" is a mecha battle game from a third-person perspective. When you pilot an advanced mecha to fight the enemy, you not only be familiar with all weapons, but also need to adapt to the skills of aerial combat and effectively destroy the limbs of the enemy mecha to win more easily.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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VOIDCRISIS
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
"VOIDCRISIS" is a four-player tower offense game on an undulating battlefield. Operate combat bio-machines called VA (Vital Armor) drawn with dynamic mechanical art shaders and work together to clear high-difficulty stages.
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Monday Night Combat
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
Monday Night Combat is a class-based, third-person shooter… and the most popular lethal sport of the future!
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Metal Wolf Chaos XD
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Iron Brigade.
Metal Wolf Chaos XD is a modernized re-release of FromSoftware's 2004 mech shooter with upgraded visual fidelity, refined controls and gameplay, a new save system, and 4K + 16:9 support for modern displays.
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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Iron Brigade.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Iron Brigade.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Iron Brigade.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Iron Brigade.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to Iron Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.