Games like M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
If M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flotilla, Siegecraft Commander and Final Theory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, nostalgic and retro. 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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Flotilla
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Top pick for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
Siegecraft Commander
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Second-strongest match for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Create the ultimate fortress and wreak havoc, raining destruction on your enemies with catapult-flinging fun!
Final Theory
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Third-strongest match for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.
Revival: Recolonization
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Ranked #4 for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Ranked #5 for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
Shadow Empire
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Ranked #6 for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Ranked #7 for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
BATTLETECH
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Ranked #8 for M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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Idle Civilization
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Shares a challenging mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Reviewers of M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
M.A.X. 2: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Reviewers of M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
A sci-fi colony-building RTS where you choose between simultaneous turns or fully turn-based modes. With eight human clans and dozens of land, sea and air units to build.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration on Steam right now. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
PlanetSide 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Toribash
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Alien Swarm
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
Endless Sky
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
AirMech
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
Chicken Invaders Universe
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Command Gold Edition
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Action and Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Dozens of missions & more than 50 ship designs put you in the captain’s chair for an amazing real-time space combat experience commanding ships from the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Hydran Kingdom, the Gorn Confederation or the Lyran Star Empire!
Star Trek™ : 25th Anniversary
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Beam aboard the USS Enterprise to join Captain Kirk and his intrepid crew in this classic adventure game. Eight original missions, each styled as episodes of an imagined fourth season of Star Trek: the Original Series, featuring the voice talents of the original actors!
Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy
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Shares a nostalgic mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
A must for any fan, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is an action/flight simulator featuring filmed footage of the original Star Trek actors. Take your place among the best and brightest at Starfleet Academy!
Battle Chess
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
It took 2000 years for someone to make chess better!
Star Trek™: Judgment Rites
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Action with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Return to command of the USS Enterprise in this classic adventure game. True episodic format beams eight original point-and-click missions into your computer. Featuring the cast members and sound effects from Star Trek: The Original Series.
Dragon Wars
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Shares a retro mood with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
From the designer's of Bard's Tale comes a story-telling RPG with over 60 monsters, 65 spells and hours of exploration and turn-based combat where your decisions matter.
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess
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Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Battle Chess II brings new life into Chinese Chess. A game of strategy with animated battles to bring the game to life!
Battle Chess 4000
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Another title from Interplay Entertainment Corp., the studio behind M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.
Welcome to the Chess Game of Tomorrow!
Frequently asked about M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
- How much does M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration cost?
- M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration are Flotilla, Siegecraft Commander, Final Theory.
- Who developed M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration?
- M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration was developed by Interplay Entertainment Corp..
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