Single-player games like Bullets & Brains
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Bullets & Brains, 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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Exterminate Zombies: Get Paid
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
Exterminate zombies in style with up to 4 players in this action packed co-op top-down shooter.
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Re-Loaded
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bullets & Brains.
Introducing the roll call of shame as Mamma, Bounca, Butch, Cap'n Hands, Sister Magpie and The Consumer blast their way through six huge blood soaked worlds to inflict brutal revenge on the supremely evil C.H.E.B.
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Hexapoda
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere making it unbreathable. The richest to fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground. Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity !
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Final Days
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
Survive overwhelming hordes of zombie-like mutants in this chaotic co-op twin-stick shooter. Play solo or team up with up to 16 players as hundreds of enemies flood the screen in a relentless fight to hold the line.
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Dead Dock Protocol
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
Introducing Dead Dock Protocol, a thrilling cyberpunk zombie shooter packed with pulse-pounding, neon-blood-soaked action! Embark on a crucial mission to rescue six besieged city zones from the clutches of Zombots and their formidable bosses.
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Zombies & Bullets
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
Zombies & Bullets is a 3D top-down action shooter game where you must help the soldiers Jacob and Erin face armies of zombies in varied levels full of challenges. Prove your skills and become the warrior of the zombie apocalypse!
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Blazing Trail
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
Escape failed! All we have left is our will to survive, the endless hordes of enemies, and enough bullets to rip them all to shreds. Blazing trail. Vertical co-op shooter, offering accessible, action-packed gameplay.
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I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bullets & Brains.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Sunset Survival: Miami
Single-player alternative to Bullets & Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bullets & Brains.
Gear up, get out, and survive the neon-soaked apocalypse. Sunset Survival: Miami is a top-down PvE extraction shooter. Raid a mutant-infested Miami for vital supplies, blast your way through enemy hordes, upgrade your base, and unlock powerful skills. Can you make it out alive?