Single-player games like Cannon Brawl
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Cannon Brawl, 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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Ancient Wars: Sparta HD
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Relive the epic battles between Spartans, Persians, and Egyptians in Ancient Wars: Sparta HD. Enjoy HD graphics, asymmetric civilizations, enhanced campaigns, new maps, smarter AI, and a revamped multiplayer mode. Forge your empire, master warfare, and make history in the Ancient World!
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Makina
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Build. Defend. Automate. MAKIN-A is a top-down shooter merged with deep tower defense and resource management. In a deserted cyberpunk wasteland, you are the last line of defense. Engineer a fleet of mining robots and build your reliable cannons, fortify your base against relentless machine swarms.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cannon Brawl.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
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Zombie City Defense 2
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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McDROID
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Farm, Build, Defend, in the Galaxy's only Arcade-Tower-Defense.
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CastleStorm
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.
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Worms
Single-player alternative to Cannon Brawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cannon Brawl.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.