Single-player games like Tiny Brains
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Tiny 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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FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!
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Move or Die
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
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Unrailed!
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
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Castle Crashers®
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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Overcooked! 2
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
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LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tiny Brains.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and the first-ever four-player co-op experience with Lara Croft.
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Cobalt
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tiny Brains.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Marble Madness
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tiny Brains.
Marble Madness is a tense and exciting pinball card building game. Using pinball collision as the main gameplay, supplemented by card construction, each game has a different experience, so experience the exhilaration of each collision.
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Stories: The Path of Destinies
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
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Omensight: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
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ACE - Arena: Cyber Evolution
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tiny Brains.
The world’s first MOSA (Multiplayer Online Sports Arena) is now available on Steam Early Access!
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Unforetold: Witchstone
Single-player alternative to Tiny Brains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tiny Brains.
Unforetold: Witchstone is an RPG sandbox with a deep, reactive influence system that allows you to shape the fate of the world.