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Also Mechs and RTS, like Mech Engineer.
- $5.99 (Price checked Nov 7)
- Deck Playable
- 2024
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Same punishing mood as Mech Engineer.
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- Deck Playable
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- Released: 2024
- Developer: KiberKreker
- Price: $14.99checked Nov 7
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 73% of 643 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Extreme mech customization matters
- Late game builds feel overpowered
- Learn by brutal trial and error
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Contemplative
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About Mech Engineer
The closest matches to Mech Engineer: Frontline Crisis, Mechabellum, Project Hospital, Farthest Frontier, and Anno 1800. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Mech Engineer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frontline Crisis, Mechabellum and Project Hospital — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its armor layering and city upgrade planning. 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.
About Mech Engineer: A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Is Mech Engineer worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 73% of 643 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $14.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 54 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Extreme mech customization matters
- Late game builds feel overpowered
- Learn by brutal trial and error
- Manual and guides are essential
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“If you enjoy reading schematics and manuals, this is the game for you. Wish half as much effort that went into the depth and complexity of the spreadsheet-like systems had gone into making the actual gameplay on the battlefield feel…”
“I really wanted to enjoy this game but I can't and could not recommend it to anyone unless they're some masochist. Visually the games has a cool and unique art style that had me interested at first along side the concept of building and…”
People who play it also play: Frontline Crisis, Mechabellum, Project Hospital
Frequently asked about Mech Engineer
Can I run it?
Does Mech Engineer run on Steam Deck?
Mech Engineer is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Mech Engineer cost?
Mech Engineer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Mech Engineer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mech Engineer are Frontline Crisis, Mechabellum, Project Hospital.
Who developed Mech Engineer?
Mech Engineer was developed by KiberKreker and published by MicroProse Software.