Games like Carmageddon: Max Damage
If Carmageddon: Max Damage is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gas Guzzlers Extreme, Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now and Carmageddon Max Pack — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, funny and grim. 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.
Get personalized picks →Carmageddon: Max Damage is a vehicular combat racing game released in 2016 by Stainless Games Ltd and published by THQ Nordic. Players engage in physics-based combat racing where destroying opponents' vehicles and pedestrian-slaughter serve as the primary win conditions, balanced with powerups across various race modes. The game preserves classic characters and modes from the original Carmageddon series. Reviewers highlight its dark humor and over-the-top mayhem, with players describing it as a nostalgic throwback to the originals that retains a dark and grim tone while remaining entertaining. The game is solo-only with a challenging difficulty level and offers a medium-length experience. Priced at $16.99 USD, it holds a 79% positive rating from 1,272 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck.
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Gas Guzzlers Extreme
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Top pick for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a fast, furious, armed-to-the-teeth, trigger-happy shooter, shifted into top gear! Take a white knuckle ride in this crazily addictive combat racing game.
Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
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Shares a retro mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Second-strongest match for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
The world's first high-speed internal organ liberation simulator is back in full 3D! The slaughter is bloodier, the body parts fly further, and the destruction is heavier. Crash and burn through the 3D rendered crowds with the pedal to the metal.
Carmageddon Max Pack
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Third-strongest match for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition
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Ranked #4 for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Ready for the aggressive, adrenaline-filled ride that leaves you breathless? FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition is all about destructive action. With carnage modes like the Deathmatch derby, Carnage Race and Head-on races are pure wreck-filled, adrenaline-pumping rides of maximum mayhem.
TRAIL OUT
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Shares a funny mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Ranked #5 for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!
FlatOut
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Ranked #6 for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!
Danger Zone
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Ranked #7 for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Danger Zone is a vehicular destruction game from seasoned genre veterans Three Fields Entertainment. Step into the shoes of a dangerous driver and cause the biggest car crashes ever seen in a video game. Danger Zone combines real physical crashes with explosive gameplay.
Zombie Derby
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Ranked #8 for Carmageddon: Max Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Zombie Derby is a small 3D racing action in the world of zombie apocalypse. Drive to survive! How far can you get before they get you?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Carmageddon: Max Damage
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Quake
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Shares a retro mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
Wreckfest
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Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
The world's first high-speed internal organ liberation simulator is back in full 3D! The slaughter is bloodier, the body parts fly further, and the destruction is heavier. Crash and burn through the 3D rendered crowds with the pedal to the metal.
DOOM
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Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Vigilantes
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Shares a grim mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.
Twisted
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Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Twisted is a clever action-platformer game combined with the best gameplay elements like time and object manipulation, clever enemies, traps and other challenges.
ROGUE SHIFT
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Reviewers of Carmageddon: Max Damage cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
ROGUE SHIFT is a high-intensity top-down shooter, set on a harsh planet that will test your will to survive. To stay alive, you will pit yourself against hordes of relentless enemies in an unforgiving, hostile environment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Carmageddon: Max Damage at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~41% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~41% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~41% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~59% under Carmageddon: Max Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
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Another title from Stainless Games Ltd, the studio behind Carmageddon: Max Damage.
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Carmageddon Max Pack
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Another title from Stainless Games Ltd, the studio behind Carmageddon: Max Damage. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.
Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
Another title from Stainless Games Ltd, the studio behind Carmageddon: Max Damage. Shares Action with Carmageddon: Max Damage.
The world's first high-speed internal organ liberation simulator is back in full 3D! The slaughter is bloodier, the body parts fly further, and the destruction is heavier. Crash and burn through the 3D rendered crowds with the pedal to the metal.
Frequently asked about Carmageddon: Max Damage
- Does Carmageddon: Max Damage work on Steam Deck?
- Carmageddon: Max Damage is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Carmageddon: Max Damage cost?
- Carmageddon: Max Damage is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Carmageddon: Max Damage have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Carmageddon: Max Damage supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Carmageddon: Max Damage?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Carmageddon: Max Damage are Gas Guzzlers Extreme, Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now, Carmageddon Max Pack.
- Who developed Carmageddon: Max Damage?
- Carmageddon: Max Damage was developed by Stainless Games Ltd and published by THQ Nordic.
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