Single-player games like Battle Bruise
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Battle Bruise, 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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ARMORED KITTEN
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Awesome side scroll action about Cute and Deadly Kitten with a double shotgun!
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre is the (far too) long awaited follow up to Buckets of Blood. Now you can continue the cartoon-style third person battle online and battle your friends, enemies or even frenemies across 6 maps and various modes.
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Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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The Culling Of The Cows
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.
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CRUEL
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Fida Puti Samurai
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Battle Bruise.
A Retro-FPS "virtual happy place", jeopardized with a naughty bug. Traverse this action-oriented roguelite blasting waifus to uncover dirty secrets on a personal computer!
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Dog Duty
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Bruise.
As some evil bigwig Octopus Commander and his army are threatening world-peace, it’s up to you and your squad of misfits to eliminate that octo-scum. Liberate outposts, defeat bosses and wreck these wicked squids up, but beware, they’re well-armed.
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Battle Bruise 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Bruise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Battle Bruise.
Back again, not messy, but MESS ITSELF!