Single-player games like Brush Burial
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Brush Burial, 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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Brush Burial: Gutter World
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
A murky first-person immersive sim with tightly-wound melee combat and tangled, vertical levels to explore. Use your forked tail to tie your enemies in knots and climb impossible heights. Kill your mark with quickness and cunning, using whatever tools you see fit.
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Brush Burial: Bruiseland
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
You are a hunter of men, and your quarry is numerous, armed, and afraid. Bind and break them. This is a first-person immersive sim with tightly interconnected environments, sleek and sadistic melee combat, and over a hundred cosmetics to unlock.
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Fast Radio Burst
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brush Burial.
You took the job to escape. Then the light descended. Fast Radio Burst is a first-person narrative parkour platformer where unexplained cosmic beams transport you into surreal, liminal memories.
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Crimerunner
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
From an errand boy to the big shot – is this possible? Start as a teenage criminal doing menial tasks, skill up, earn respect and make connections. Prove your worth and climb to the top… Parkour style!
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Endless Thief: a Fluffy Stealth Adventure
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
You're a master thief in this ambient animal stealth game. You sneak past any guard, pick any lock, break into and steal from any secured building. Guards see, hear, speak and chase. Observe and prepare the best plan. Ghost unseen in shadows, distract, stalk, trap or knock out and hide guards.
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B.C. Piezophile
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
B.C. Piezophile is a first-person action horror game set deep underwater. It features a foreign ocean brimming with ambivalent environments, hazardous anomalies and baroque ecosystems. Stranded in the hadal zone, the player must ascend over 6,150 AeC before they can dream of rescue.
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Pseudoregalia
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.
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Before I Go
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brush Burial.
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Brush Burial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Brush Burial.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.