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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 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Makina — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anomaly: Warzone Earth — Steam game cover

    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!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DG2: Defense Grid 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zombie City Defense 2 — Steam game cover

    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?

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infested Planet — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    McDROID — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CastleStorm — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Worms — Steam game cover

    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.

    2011Strategy7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →