Single-player games like Maximum Override
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Maximum Override, 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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Turbo Dismount™
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Teardown
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Brick Rigs
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Goat Simulator
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
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Universe Sandbox
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Maximum Override.
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
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Clustertruck
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
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.
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Instruments of Destruction
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.
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Demolition Inc.
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth!
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MyRobot
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
MyRobot is a robot sandbox game with optional AI features!
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Wytchwood
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Apotheon
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Capsized
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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DuneCrawl
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Autocraft
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Modbox
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maximum Override.
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR
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GUNHEAD
Single-player alternative to Maximum Override — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.