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Single-player games like M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration

Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration, 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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    Flotilla — Steam game cover

    Flotilla

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2010StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Siegecraft Commander — Steam game cover

    Siegecraft Commander

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2017ActionStrategy19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Final Theory — Steam game cover

    Final Theory

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2018StrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Revival: Recolonization — Steam game cover

    Revival: Recolonization

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2024Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Regicide — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2015ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadow Empire — Steam game cover

    Shadow Empire

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2020StrategySimulationRPG39.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2018Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BATTLETECH — Steam game cover

    BATTLETECH

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle Civilization — Steam game cover

    Idle Civilization

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    M.A.X. 2: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — Steam game cover

    M.A.X. 2: Mechanized Assault & Exploration

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2017Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Touch Me — Steam game cover

    Touch Me

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Touch Me is a petting/ touching simulator where you will need to select and touch the body parts of the lady in order to increase her desire.

    2023SimulationCasual2.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Command Gold Edition — Steam game cover

    Star Trek: Starfleet Command Gold Edition

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2016ActionStrategySimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Trek™ : 25th Anniversary — Steam game cover

    Star Trek™ : 25th Anniversary

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2015ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy — Steam game cover

    Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2015ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battle Chess — Steam game cover

    Battle Chess

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.

    It took 2000 years for someone to make chess better!

    2017Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Trek™: Judgment Rites — Steam game cover

    Star Trek™: Judgment Rites

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dragon Wars — Steam game cover

    Dragon Wars

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2017AdventureRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess — Steam game cover

    Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2017Strategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battle Chess 4000 — Steam game cover

    Battle Chess 4000

    Single-player alternative to M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration.

    Welcome to the Chess Game of Tomorrow!

    2021Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →