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What are the best mech games on Steam?

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8 Games Considered

Best mech games on Steam	Price	Platforms	Genre
-- Hawken	Free	Windows / PlayStation 4 / Xbox One	Sci-Fi / Mechs / Action / FPS
-- Brigador	$15.99	-	-
-- BattleTech	$39.99	Windows, Linux, macOS	Turn-Based Strategy
-- MechWarrior Online	Free	-	-
-- War robots multiplayer battles	-	-	-

Hawken

Top Pro

Fast-paced action

Just because Hawken is a game that consists of large heavy mechs, don't expect to be spending it slowly clunking around. Hawken is an extremely fast-paced game, which is aided by the fact that each mech is equipped with jump-jets that enable quick movements such as a side dodge or short hover. This keeps games moving quick so there's never a dull moment. See More

Top Con

No longer available on Steam

At the time of writing, Hawken is no longer available on PC, with the developers choosing to focus on XBOX and PS4 development. See More

Carlos Nava's Experience

Game shut down in January of 2018 See More

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Genre:Sci-Fi / Mechs / Action / FPS

Top Pro

Great sense of immersion

In a mech game a sense of feeling is very important. Hawken does an excellent job of making you feel like you really are in the mech. Whether its firing off a salvo of missiles or stomping your way through a destroyed city, Hawken will always make you feel like your'e right in the action. See More

Top Con

No offline story

A current trend in online gaming is that many games do not offer a single player story mode/campaign. Sadly HAWKEN fits this trend as there is no story mode to be seen in the game, it is all online PvP play. See More

VivaciousTiddalik's Experience

to my suprise for a dead and old game made by 7 people it was really good AMONGUS See More

Top Pro

Repair on the fly

Smoking, missing an arm and almost dead? Just find a hiding spot and repair yourself to get back in the game, with your killstreaks still intact! See More

Top Con

Some weapons and mechs are way better than others at solo kills and ttk

Want to lone wolf it for a bit? You might have to spend a generous amount of real world cash or many, many hours in game to get those mechs and weapons/modules. However, this isnt a be all end all. You will still get rolled by players in inferior machines working together or by players who are simply far more skilled than you. TTK = Time to kill. See More

VersatileDanand's Experience

For a free game, it's fantastic. See More

Top Pro

Numerous play options

Players can choose between a ton of upgrades, along with quite a few different classes and mechs. As well as 6 different game modes. See More

Top Con

The learning curve is quite steep

However dont let it put you off, this can be overcome. See More

LivelyEhecatl's Experience

I call BS that its no longer available on Steam My friend found this game a long time ago and he loved it so much and we were searching for the game and i found this we are very angry and sad that we cant play it on PC anymore See More

Top Pro

Encourages teamplay

In a genre saturated with lone wolf games like Call of Duty, Hawken is a nice change that encourages working with your teammates. For example, to heal you must release a repair drone which leaves you very vulnerable if you don't have someone covering your back. Even during the thick of battle, enemies are quick and you always have to be watching your back for an enemy to flank you. Its moments like this that encourage players to work together. See More

Top Con

Troubled development history

Hawken has many unfixed bugs and an aggressive micro-transaction strategy. And the approach of complete silence taken by the game's previous developers Adhesive Games when players raised their concerns did not reinstate any trust. Luckily, Hawken was recently given off to a different development team that plans on addressing all of these issues and start implementing new content once that's done. See More

Top Pro

Quick time to kill

Time to kill is fast, but not to fret, it gets you back into the game quickly like Call of Duty. See More

Top Pro

Your opponents are armored so they don't go down quickly

TTK may be fast, but you cant lone wolf successfully before long. Eventually you will be rolled, and rolled again. See More

Top Pro

The mech's appearance itself really doesn't matter

Mechs come with the ability to completely change their appearance if you dont like how they look, from your boosters all the way to the actual chassis, legs and arms. Your weapons seem to be locked too the chassis original requirements unfortunately. See More

Top Pro

There are no player tiers

There is no rampant elitism here to be top dog. Just carnage as everyone fights to get the highest kill streaks. You'll run into some insanely skilled pilots eventually, with stupidly potent equipment, but killing them and dominating them is also possible once you devise your own tactics to take care of whatever mech they are currently piloting. Heavily armored and slow? Get a light mech and jump behind or around them. Got a fast firing, fast heating mech on your tail? turn and face them with a sniper head on. (This seems counter intuitive but the sniper out damages some chainguns, is fairly fast firing, and can hit them at extreme ranges, where their range is limited. Walking toward or away from their wall of bullets is all about personal preference.) See More

Top Pro

Drop in to random matches at any time

Hawken allows you to drop into instances or matches almost immediately and the advantage is clear: No long waits while the server finds enough players to balance teams and then drop you into the match. Sometimes it takes a minute to get running, but after that, things happen very quickly. See More

Top Pro

Almost completely free

In Hawken, almost everything can be bought with in-game currency. Unlike most free to play games this even includes items such as cosmetic changes. While you may have to do a bit of grinding, this game can be fully played without spending a dime. See More

Top Pro

Great graphics

The graphics for Hawken being that it is an online play game and is offered free to play are done quite well. Even if this were a paid game, the graphics wold still hold up. See More

Top Pro

Socializing and finding a decent team is not hard

It's fairly easy to meet new players and friend them, allowing you to slowly build a decent team of rollers. That doesn't stop your friend from joining the other side mid match to balance the teams and shooting you in the face, but it's still enjoyable. See More

Brigador

Top Pro

Great visuals

RickZeeland's Experience

Now on offer on Steam for only 7,19€ See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

BattleTech

Top Pro

Nice selection of mechs

Many of the mechs from the board game are represented in-game. It's pretty fun to be able to take your favorite ones into battle. See More

Top Con

Very long loading screens

The loading screens between missions can be incredibly long. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Now on offer on Humble Bundle for only €9.99 https://www.humblebundle.com/store/battletech See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Turn-Based Strategy

Top Pro

Great variety of missions keeps things fresh

The story campaign missions themselves are varied with lots of different objectives and goals. For example, you'll be protecting locations, escorting friendly units, saving political refugees, salvaging crashed ships, or even just raining down as much destruction as possible. There's enough variety so you'll never feel like you're doing the same thing too much, and helps keep things fresh and interesting over the course of the campaign. See More

Top Con

Camera is fairly poor

The camera doesn't follow missiles or laser shots properly, often lagging behind so you miss the actual impact. It can feel pretty bad to strategically line up a nice shot and then not be able to see it in action. The camera also has a tendency to sway away from the action or not properly follow the mechs when they move. See More

Top Pro

Lots of cool ways to build and customize your mechs

Whether you're salvaging parts from fallen foes in battle, or buying them from merchants, there's a large variety of different weapon and chassis types. Each weapon and piece of equipment has a generic type, but also name brand versions which can provide bonuses such as longer range, more damage, and less heat. By building reputation with various merchants and factions, you're able to gain access to bigger and better equipment. You can also mix and match this equipment and weapons to customize a mech with various attributes such as damage, speed, and better defense. Overall, the system offers quite a bit of depth and flexibility, so you'll feel like you have total control over your creations. See More

Top Con

RNG results in loads of frustrating gameplay

Unfortunately, there is a lot of RNG in Battletech that can result in frustrating situations. Getting all your units into place, lining up your perfect shot, and then missing every single one due to random bad luck feels terrible every time it happens. This is made even worse by the fact your opponent can, due to the same RNG, perfectly land every shot and blow your mech up. Despite how carefully or strategically you play, sometimes it will just boil down to pure RNG. See More

Top Pro

Strategic turn based gameplay offers a lot of depth

Deciding what actions to take or where to move your units each turn offers a lot of potential for deep strategy. Each battle basically consists of moving your units around the map and destroying your enemies or completing objectives, however, you can only take a limited number of actions per turn. These actions - including running, sprinting, shooting, evading, etc - are limited by several systems, such as morale and heat. These need to be managed efficiently to succeed. For example, heat limits how much moving or firing you can do without your mech overheating. Morale must be built up over time but allows to unload more precise or stronger weapon shots. Deciding on where to move, when to shoot, and how to position your units each turn offers plenty of room for strategic play. See More

Top Con

Distracting filler content

While building up your mercenary company, you're often forced to take generic side missions before you can progress the main campaign story. Many of these missions take place on pretty barren landscapes and don't have a whole lot of variety. This detracts from the story campaign a bit and ultimately ends up feeling like distracting filler content. See More

Top Pro

Loads of fun possibilities during battle

There are so many different weapon and mech types, that the possibilities for the ways battles unfold are almost endless. Flamethrowers can overheat your opponent. Machine guns tear away armor, leaving enemies exposed for laser damage. All the different areas of the mechs can be individually targeted. You can shoot the legs to disable them, or go right for the core to blow it up. Taking too many actions can cause you to overheat. Different terrain types like desert or tundra can even effect the heat levels of your units. Mechs all move different, with some being fast and able to dodge attacks more easily, while others are massive slow moving brutes that pack a lot of firepower. Just the sheer amount of ways each battle can unfold is where the game truly excels. See More

MechWarrior Online

Top Pro

Takes advantage of Battletech lore

There is more than 30 years worth of lore and world building behind every single Battletech/Mechwarrior/Mechassault game. This gives a good sense of world and background, even for first time players. See More

Top Con

P2W: Pay to not get mauled to death constantly

Trial Mechs are a joke. They are intended to allow you to get right into the thick of the action until you've saved up to purchase a mech of your own and customize it to your preferences. That however is never the case as you are constantly losing right off the bat, making it nigh impossible for you to make a real income in game, causing many newbies to turn away rather quickly. Until you spend some of that sweet sweet micro transaction cash, or by some miracle make the 10-17+Million it takes to create a viable mech build, then you are just gonna be eating bullets for a while. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Top Pro

Your favorite "unseen" mechs have made a comeback

Unseen refers to certain imagery, namely the visual appearance of a number of iconic BattleMechs, that has not been depicted in official publications since 1994 for legal reasons. The units as such—their BattleTech names, game stats and history—always remained part of the BattleTech canon. Basically due to legal restrictions, many Mechs have been unused in the past that are now currently in this game to be used. See More

Top Con

Light mechs and machine guns rule

Light mechs are the bane of anything over 50 tons which shouldn't be the case. A 100 ton atlas should be the last target on a piranha pilots mind but in this game it's a main target. See More

Top Pro

Easy to start as beginner since changes made

Now lets beginners start the game with 10-20 million in game cash, allowing you to take your pick of any mech in the game + some gear to make coming in new much much easier See More

Top Con

Customer "Appreciation" Events are just a ploy

Customer "Appreciation" Events are simply a ploy to goad players into spending more money through the MWO website, so that players might receive a slightly different variant of a Mech that is "free". One must make high dollar purchases to get those mechs that may or may not be OP depending on what's been nerfed at the time. See More

Top Pro

A Potentially fun but difficult beast to master

If you can put up with the negatives and can find a good group of fellows and learn some tactics, it can be enjoyable. See More

Top Con

Pre-order Mechs and Mechpacks

Every time one of these are introduced to the game, players find a way to abuse them and break the game. This causes PGI to Nerf everything globally through heat, charging, hard point restrictions or individual weapon nerfs. Some of said restrictions don't even make sense lore-wise: Since when has a gauss rifle ever needed charging in books and previous games? Never. They are always charged all the time. See More

Top Pro

Hit registration is usually on point

Usually but not always the case. More or less it is serviceable and mostly a positive. See More

Top Con

MC: Mechwarrior Credit is worthless

It's an absolute waste of money in comparison to the mechpacks, collectors packs, and pre-orders, which come loaded with modules and goodies that are a real pain to unlock and pay for with MC and C-Bills. On top of that, PGI seemingly punishes players who spend money on MC instead of Mechpacks by offering "Customer Appreciation" items that are of far greater value than rewards offered for MC alone, even if the dollar amount spent is the same. See More

Top Pro

It has gratifying mech building

The ability to personalize based upon your weapon preferences is huge. All through a discovery process and learning what works for you and what does not. Its the same concept behind what makes Armored Core games so entertaining, despite having awful gameplay, mechanics, and storylines. See More

Top Con

Everything MWO online does, Hawken does better

MWO is slowly improving, but Hawken does it mostly right from the gate. See More

Top Pro

Some Mechs are straight up overpowered with certain builds

Certain groups of weapons or boats naturally complement each other, such as SRMs and AC cannons, or LRMs and lasers. Some configurations can be overpowered, which results in you having an advantage while other players are disadvantaged. See More

Top Con

Aside from match making, there is no real game play

There is no alternative gameplay unless you want to jump into the meat grinder that is the quick match cue, or the faction cue which is the same thing with spawns and multiple lives per match enabled. See More

Top Con

General social interactions

Making friends is hard since everyone in the match is booted at the tally screen. Nothing of the previous match is recorded, so you can't find the people you liked from the last match in order to friend them. Identifying people you want to play with and friend request must be done before the match ends, or you must wait till you meet that player again, which is not very likely. See More

Top Con

You cannot easily create or communicate with clans in game

You can create a unit, but beyond that, you are severely limited to a poor man's AOL instant messanger, which is saying something. Once you are in a match, voice communication becomes enabled. If you dont have teamspeak or a mic you are very much out of luck. See More

Top Con

The game cannot be played solo

It is not easily played solo, you must be on a good team or you get rolled. See More

Top Con

The game is frustratingly hard, even for good pilots

The learning curve is quite high, but is somewhat offset by forgiving mech builds. See More

Top Con

PGI may be ruining the franchise

PGI is taking a storied and noble franchise and running it into the ground by making the game Pay to Win. See More

Top Con

Purchases you make are worthless the moment you make them

Spent 50 real dollars on an okay mech with an okay build but feeling a little buyer's remorse? Wanna sell it back to PGI for C-bills? Well too bad, with one exception (The Cicada Hero), most mechs and their parts are worth less than half of what you bought them for in game currency. See More

Top Con

This video Explains things almost better than I can

https://youtu.be/9-JDoxpdcUw See More

Top Con

Paint and decal items often cost as much as whole mechs

Paint, the most basic right to anyone who's ever played a mech game ever, it costs a lot in this game. When added together, cosmetic items are worth as much as individual assault tier mechs. See More

War robots multiplayer battles

Mechwarrior Living Legends

Top Pro

It's Battlefield with giant robots.

Top Con

Players more used to MWO might find some aspects of MWLL a bit of a turnoff.

InquisitiveKakka's Experience

Has a deeply entrenched fanbase and community who utterly love this mod. Tiny playercount especially on weekdays, but weekends are usually populated. Respawns let you try out just about everything the game has to offer as long as you follow the team and your shots are on target. Very skill and knowledge-based, as knowing what enemies to fight (mechs, VTOL's, planes, wheeled and tracked armored units, and man-sized hardsuits) and what enemies to run away from is extremely important. Running out solo is almost always a death sentence unless you're an intelligent, observant scout or are in something massively armored and armed. Definitely worth your time if you can stomach the somewhat crash-prone mod. Players are generally very helpful, but you get your share of pitiless tryhards too. It's an unbelievable achievement for modding, though, and a hell of a mech warfare sim if you're at all into Battletech. See More

Top Pro

Huge maps accommodate various playstyles.

Top Con

The nature of CryEngine makes this mod picky and finicky to run on modern hardware. Servers are player-run, meaning downtime and problems affect the entire playerbase.

Top Pro

Enjoyment increases as your skill and teamwork experience grows.

Top Con

Extremely devoted but very tiny community makes the game hard to grow into.

Top Pro

Extremely wide range of pilotable vehicles spanning numerous types across the franchise.

Top Con

Not easy to jump into as a brand new player unfamiliar with mech sims.

Top Pro

Awesome adherence to the Battletech series.

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

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