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
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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!