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Games like Square Brawl

If Square Brawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stick Fight: The Game, Overcooked and 1001 Spikes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast paced platformer controls, competitive and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Square Brawl: A fast and skill based party game where all of the focus lies in fun and engaging gameplay.

2015ActionIndie4.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby landfall
Square Brawl — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into Square Brawl also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Stick Fight: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Top pick for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

    2017ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Overcooked

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Square Brawl.

    Second-strongest match for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 1001 Spikes

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...

    2014ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Duck Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Ranked #4 for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

    2015ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magicka

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Square Brawl.

    Ranked #5 for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Square Brawl.

    Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.

    2011ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Strikers Edge

    WHY THIS

    Shares local multiplayer and an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Ranked #6 for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Strikers Edge is a medieval dodgeball with weapons, ancient warriors and special powers. Challenge your opponents in local multiplayer, ascend to the top of the ladder and become the best striker!

    2018ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SpeedRunners

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Ranked #7 for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

    2016ActionSportsIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Move or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Ranked #8 for Square Brawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    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.

    2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Square Brawl

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Samurai GUNN

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for 2 to 4 players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.

    2013ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. TowerFall Ascension

    WHY THIS

    Shares local multiplayer and a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.

    2014ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Nidhogg

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

    2014ActionSportsIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Stick Fight: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

    2017ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Tower Fall

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    Tower Fall is a fun PC alternative to the board game known as "falling tower".

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Cats: Sports With Friends

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    Help Buddy and Lucky develop their sports photos! Paint each character, color by color, pixel by pixel, in a relaxing experience full of friendship, fun, and sports!

    2025SportsIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Sportsfriends

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Reviewers of Square Brawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    Sportsfriends is a compendium of award-winning local multiplayer games. Featuring: retro-styled fighting in BaraBariBall, QWOP-like pole dueling in Super Pole Riders, high-velocity passing in Hokra, and, on Mac and Linux, face-to-face sparring in Johann Sebastian Joust.

    2014SportsIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Square Brawl at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Square Brawl.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Square Brawl.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Square Brawl.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Square Brawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Idol Showdown

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Made by hololive fans, for hololive fans. Idol Showdown is the definitive fan-made hololive fighting game experience, powered by rollback netcode. Engage in exciting duels as your favorite hololive talent and prove once and for all who the strongest idol is using the game’s easy-to-learn controls.

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. BRAIN / OUT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Brain / Out is a multiplayer shooter with a nostalgic post-Soviet feel. Experience dynamic battles and exterminate your enemies with a large arsenal of modern weaponry. Lock'n'load!

    2017ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Totally Reliable Delivery Service Beta

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Welcome to Totally Reliable Open Beta! Totally Reliable is a ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers. Work together using odd machinery, useful gadgets, and the wonders of physics to deliver packages...or try to at least!

    2019ActionIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. Holo X Break

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Fight your way through endless waves of holoX's minions! Gear up with all sorts of equipment and items in this action packed beat-em-up to reach the 5 bosses of hololive's "holoX", and put a stop to their plans!

    2024ActionIndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Rubber Bandits: Summer Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Rubber Bandits: Summer Prologue is a wacky multiplayer party brawler for up to 4 players.

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Orbital Gear

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Orbital Gear is a fast paced sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give you momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of the twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies.

    2014ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Apotheon Arena

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Apotheon Arena is the free online-multiplayer complement to the mythic Greek action RPG, Apotheon. Pit your skills with spear and shield against other players in brutal bronze-age combat. Battle across the statuesque arenas of Olympus, depicted with beautiful black-figure pottery artwork.

    2015ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from landfall

Other recommendable Steam games by landfall, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Indie with Square Brawl.

    Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. ROUNDS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.

    2021ActionIndie5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Clustertruck

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

    2016ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Haste

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Run fast, soar through the air, and master your landings as you speed through procedural worlds to outrun the end of the universe, by yourself and with friends!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Knightfall: A Daring Journey

    WHY THIS

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Two knights, a strong bond, and a long journey. Take up the race for the rose, ride from town to town and take shelter before nightfall by any means necessary! If your bond is strong and your horse drifts well, you can be the recipient of the fabled rose. Luckily you brought guns!

    2022ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Air Brawl

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    A fast paced multiplayer dogfighting game that focuses on creative weapons and game mechanics that reward skillful flying.

    2015ActionIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Shares local multiplayer and a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Another title from landfall, the studio behind Square Brawl. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Stick Fight: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

    2017ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Overcooked

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Square Brawl.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Move or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Square Brawl.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Square Brawl.

    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.

    2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Square Brawl

How much does Square Brawl cost?
Square Brawl is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Square Brawl have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Square Brawl supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
What games are most similar to Square Brawl?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Square Brawl are Stick Fight: The Game, Overcooked, 1001 Spikes.
Who developed Square Brawl?
Square Brawl was developed by landfall.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Square Brawl.

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