Single-player games like Brave Joe
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Brave Joe, 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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Knights of the Kitchen Table
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Brave Joe.
Giant food monsters are attacking! As a Knight of the Kitchen Table, it is your sworn duty to defeat them in this action-adventure, hack-and-slash, souls-like game!
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Streetball Legends
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Streetball Legends is a basketball game with roguelite mechanics and a gameplay without rules.
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Demon Strikes Back
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Demon strikes back is a rogue-lite action game, across the abyssal fissure and beat all your foes! Seize their weapons, snatch their equipment, retrieve their relics, and reave their soul! The demon grows stronger than ever!
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Russian Reality
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Meet the new satirical beat em up on the theme of Russia! You will find a deep storyline and a unique combat system in which you can make your own combinations based on the main hits and special moves.
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THROWDOWN BOXING 2
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Thirteen of the most gifted and powerful boxers on earth square-off in the world famous Throwdown Boxing Association competition! Choose your Kid Titan, prove you are the best of the best and help save the world from the villainous Ned "Cry Baby" Nerdman!
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Crazy The Clown's Balloon Animal Massacre
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Crazy the Clown used to be the only one at the circus who made balloon animals for the kids. And then everything changed. Crazy told them all, more than once. He told them not to set up a balloon animal factory at the circus... but no one would listen.
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The Last Friend
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
Doggone tired of the typical brawler or tower defense that is all bark and no bite? Then join Alpha and T. Juan on a dynamic adventure that has you battling hordes of baddies and bosses on their mission to save all the Doggos!
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Retro Classix: Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Brave Joe.
Grab your club and get ready to go on a wild, prehistoric adventure with the Cavemen Ninjas – Joe & Mac! Play as Joe and Mac, two cavemen who fight against enemy cavemen and dinosaurs using prehistoric weapons.
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My Toxic Darling
Single-player alternative to Brave Joe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brave Joe.
You wake in a dungeon where strangers sit in chairs, each with a story about their lover. Listen, judge, and answer. Empathize or turn hostile — every choice changes how they treat you. Find three keys and escape before time runs out. Play solo, or as a couple in two-player co-op.