Games like Maximum Override
If Maximum Override is your kind of game, the closest matches are Turbo Dismount™, HIT and Teardown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and hypnotic. 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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Players who liked Maximum Override also play
Steam players who put hours into Maximum Override 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.
Turbo Dismount™
WHY THIS
Top pick for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Turbo Dismount is a kinetic tragedy about Mr. Dismount and the cars who love him. It is the official sequel to the wildly popular and immensely successful personal impact simulator - Stair Dismount.
HIT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Smash, slap, and whack squishy clay heads in VR! Choose wild weapons like crowbars and guns, watch heads deform with soft body physics and hear the heads react to each blow. Play HIT, the ultimate stress relief tool!
Teardown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Goat Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Voxel Project VR
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Maximum Override.
Ranked #6 for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Brick Rigs
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Maximum Override.
Ranked #7 for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Maximum Override.
Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!
People Playground
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Maximum Override.
Ranked #8 for Maximum Override fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Maximum Override at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maximum Override.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maximum Override.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Maximum Override.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Maximum Override on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maximum Override.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Maximum Override.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from Alientrap
Other recommendable Steam games by Alientrap, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wytchwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Indie and Casual with Maximum Override.
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
Apotheon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Capsized
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
DuneCrawl
WHY THIS
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
DuneCrawl is an open world action-adventure game, where you take to the sandy seas atop a gigantic crustacean festooned with black powder cannons. Play as a solo Crab Keeper, or with a crew of up to three other friends in local and online coop.
Autocraft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
GUNHEAD
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maximum Override.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind Maximum Override. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled with monstrous drones made out of bone and steel. Sequel to the 2d roguelite Cryptark.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Goat Simulator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Brick Rigs
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Maximum Override.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Maximum Override.
Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!
Frequently asked about Maximum Override
- How much does Maximum Override cost?
- Maximum Override is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Maximum Override?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maximum Override are Turbo Dismount™, HIT, Teardown.
- Who developed Maximum Override?
- Maximum Override was developed by Alientrap.
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