While Battletech is solid on it's own what really makes it are the mods. There are at least three major mods that bring the game more in line with the lore and it's tabletop origins via reworked skills, MASSIVE numbers of extra mechs, weapons, technologies, a full map and expanded timeline.
Battletech has at least two Mods that make the game VERY different and extremely replayable. Battletech Advanced 3062 and Rogue Tech are both mods that are active with new content and fascinating changes to the vanilla gameplay.
They could have done so much more with (paradox's) Battletech . But They lost the IP . Since Battletech is trademarked. phieraa hold s the the Ip Right now for another 2 years I believe.
Its a sin to be a variety mech fan and not try Zone of the Enders 2. Its a Kojima's mech game with a great story, amazing soundtrack and probably the fastest pace mech combat apart from AC4. It also has NG+ where you can unlock new mechs, weapons and minigames (including a pvp fighting mode). Its in my top 3 for sure.
uhh sure.. because to be a mech fan you must love asian filth :') i would sooner end my family lives than play some trash jap graphics game.. assume there is a tentacle monster and a school girl there too?
I still play Titanfall 2 co-op every weekend. Still haven't quite maxed out Monarch. The servers died for a while but Apex brought it back to life. I also play Mech 5 Mercs every weekend. Just a great sandbox with an endless game loop.
Some of the overhaul mods for Battletech, such as Battletech Advanced 3062, or my personal preference RogueTech, hugely expand on the base game, adding major new features -- RogueTech I can confirm adds such features as drop 2 lances (over the base game's one), completely overhauls salvage making it more realistic, adds (hundreds? of) new pilots, new factions, as well as hundreds, if not thousands of new unique mechs, even allows the command and refit tanks, air units and Battle Armour -- making such mods an almost must have, once completing the vanilla compaign...
Bigger Drops allows you to purchase and upgrade a second drop ship to bring up to four more mechs. I don't know if it's used in RougeTech, I know BTA 3062 uses it. It's available as a stand alone mod. Adding a second lance massively expands the gameplay, even without any other changes.
@@stuartendo-streeter4903 yeah, RogueTech has had an upgrade path for a second drop ship for some time, which unlocks a second mech lance, and additional vehicle deployment slots, as well as increased drop tonnage limits...
Worth noting that both MW5: Mercenaries and Battletech have a ton of mods that add hundreds of hours of replay-ability. I recommend YAML and Coyote's mission pack for the former and Roguetech for the latter!
Roguetech is super fun. I've spent well over 100 hours with it. Definitely the full Battletech experience. I actually started here in the Battletech mod-verse and really enjoyed my time here. The BTA3062 mod has many of the same toys as Roguetech, but is slightly easier on the old CPU/load times and changes fewer things. And as someone whose gaming time is currently at a premium, BTA3062 is what I play right now. Have also spent over 100 hours with it as well.
@@Illwraithif what you are saying is that you want a mod to make MW5's mechlab the same as the one in MWO, then you want to use Yet Another MechLab (YAML), as it does exactly that. Also recommend adding Yet Another Weapon for the missing weapons (that start appearing post 3050).
Really great list! So many great action titles and I also really enjoy Mechwarrior 5 and Battletech. A few here that I didnt know about also so will be looking to pick them up :)
Armored Core 6 was great for 2024. For me personally, the best Mech combat I have experienced is In Helldivers 2. The Emancipator mech is like the Raidar X from Macross. It feels weighty, strong but weak. Physical attacks, and, in and out mecha combat for the best combined arms gameplay. Like MechAssault, but better.
I'm so glad that you included Mech Engineer! It's a great little game and really does need to have the spotlight shine on how great it really can be. As I get older I've learned that Steam Reviews, unless they are Red, are often fairly easy to ignore in favore of content like this.
Yeah, I was going to say this. Imo if your reviewing a game 30 hours in, you've gotten your money's worth from it. And there are plenty of negative reviews with well more than 30 hours.
MWO is a fun game but most players are worthless. Poke themselfs to death, to stupid for torso twist, lrm noobs and the ranking system is crap as hell... You tank 1k dmg but get a derank because you do 300dmg or your team lost and you are just the 4th best player in your team.
@@kaiwinhall5199 While I agree with a few of the thing you mentioned. I would like to mention that damage tanked is a fairly irrelevant stat, and tanking lots of damage does very little for your team except for a few scenarios that are rare because of the pugs incompetence, also it takes much more skill to do damage then to tank damage so it should consider damage done as a more valuable metric. I have learned that I have way more fun if I expect less of the pugs, otherwise I would spend way to much time angry at something that is extremely difficult and inconsistent to try and control, I instead focus on myself and my own performance and doing as much damage as I can and what I could have done better. your individual affect on a match can actually have a huge impact on your wl even if solo dropping. But the main reason I love mwo nowadays is just for comp not qp or anything like that, comp is 100x more fun then qp or faction or eventq imo.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi Tanking dmg is as important as doing dmg but most pugs are to stupid to take advantage of it when an enemy is focused on you. Doing dmg i´s as easy as tanking dmg just lrm the fuck out of an enemy and you got 700+ dmg in a game because well most pugs are stupid xD. I agree comp is 100 times more fun then pug and it was so from the start. I quit MWO 9 years ago and comp 12vs12 was far more fun then pug but most fun back those days i had in 12vs12 faction play. I started playing again this year with a friend and sadly faction warfare is dead. And yes your own preformance has a high impact of the match but if your team is doing the nescar thing again and spread out when the enemy do a deathball you are fucked. It although is very important which main time is it you play. European players are mostly trash (what is bad for me because i am german and this is my maintime xD). US maintime is far more organized and far more fun.
@@kaiwinhall5199 I find the NA prime time to have much more passive players, and the EU primetime to be much more nascary, and I find that OC prime time is a bit of both just with worse players. I would say most of the time tanking dmg is not as useful as doing damage in qp just because of how unreliable it is, lots of pugs won't be able to actually take advantage of it, and I see lots of pugs do very little damage and die instantly, the 1000 damage they tanked from being in a bad position is far less useful then someone who took only 100 damage but did over 1000 dmg. and lots of the people who die instantly with no damage will go on to complain to team members who might actually be doing something useful, like a sniper who is doing lots of damage and controlling a lot of the map but is taking very little damage, and they will complain that they are losing because mechs like the sniper aren't tanking, basically it gets used as an excuse for being trash at the game fairly often. Basically trying to say that its much easier to take advantage of damage done then it is to take advantage of damage taken, especially for pugs. While if you are doing lots of damage even if your aim is trash, you are still doing damage, which is guaranteed to help your team win, and are very likely controlling more of the map then someone who did very little damage but tanked a lot.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi the fact that most pugs are stupid doesn't change the fact that tanking is important as doing PINPOINT dmg is! A player with 500dmg and 500tanked 2solo kills is far more usefull for the team as an noob assault with 1k dmg spread all over the enemies armor and a quick death with less than 300dmg tanked and no kill! But the worthless ranking system will give him a rank up even if he is one of the big reasons why his team lost. Cowards in assaults hide and poke till death are one of the worst problems with pugs. EU primetime is the worst of all because the nescar thing is the most common here and the players are to stupid to react to a changing situation. They will keep on a far spread out nescar till death even if the enemy has already his fingers in their buttholes. EU players aiming is better as it is in OC but both are completely unorganized and worthless in brawl plus EU players have the biggest number of lore friendly noobs who push builds worse than trial mech because muhhh In TaBlEtOp BaTtLeTeCh tHiS iS ThE FiTtInG oF tHiS VaRiAnT fRoM tHiS MeCh. And the fact that most good players in EU only care for themselfs instead of organizing the trashy pugs only makes things worse and that is the biggest difference between EU and OC compared to US primetime. But one thing i like about the community is that the people can take a joke and you have close to none rainbow fashists with huge butthurt everytime someone says something their sick mind could imagine as offensive against some fairytales.
I would like to mention two games which aren't on this list but I believe to be absolutely noteworthy. 1) Metal Fatigue: a very innovative, if a little rough around the edges, RTS with customizable mechs. 2) Baldr Sky: a half Visual Novel, half top-down mech action game with a LOT of unlockable customization and very deep and satisfying combat system. But it's not for the faint of heart, the story has some seriously disturbing moments.
I'd like to mention some older but still modern mech games that deserve more love. First is Chromehounds on the 360. This is a sorely underrated mech game that looks and plays very well for the slower more deliberate type of mech games. Next is Lost Planet. While certainly not underrated by any means, I feel like this game has been tossed to the wayside more as time goes on. Finally, the oldest game I'll mention is Mech Assault. It's an Xbox game that is essentially a more arcade-like version of BattleTech and Mech Warrior.
Why no love for MegaMek/MekHQ? Because it is not a Steam title? A couple of these on this list are not really mech game, more like anime power armor. Still a good list that reminded me of a couple old games I need to replay.
Thanks for the list, I have made a few additions to my Steam wishlist 😁 Would Brigador not be an isometric, more than a top down? One recommendation I would make is Bionic Dues, fun little game with awesome music.
4:51 As someone who has played Mecha Knights; Nightmare…it absolutely deserves more recognition than it gets. Its basically Armored Core meets Attack on Titan meets eldrich horror. Its one of those combinations you never see in another game, and it executes that combination so perfectly it makes you wonder why nobody else has done it before.
Sigh, why can't there be a Battletech 2 in the making. Yes BT is great, especially with mods - but still i would love a sequel with a bigger campaign, better narrative, more mechs, weapon-types and bigger battles.
thanks for the video, the last time i played mechwarrior (3) was in the 90s. every time i checked it out since then there were provisions to stop my 7/14/7 shadowcat with 2 PPCs and a bunch of medium lasers. vox machinae looks like a real step forward but let me guess everything is stompy :) back in the 1980s i used to play the first version of warhammer 40k. played halflings on hoverboards with meltabomb grenades from slingshots. nobody would let me play that again either. i don't understand how people can even shoot without moving.
Recently I went into my purchase history on steam because I was bored and learned my first game I bought and played on steam was supreme commander 2! So wild seeing it on this list, I kinda wanna go play it again now
The Developer AstroPort has a number of Side scrolling mech arcade games worth taking a look at. There is Mech Blaze, Armed Seven, Steel Strider, and Gigantic army as platform games, and then a number of scrolling shooters as well as well.
There's a free open source Java based Battletech Mechwarrior knock-off game called Megamek. It's a direct copy of the turn based tabletop game. Megamek has all the official Mechs we know and love. You can play single battles or a sandbox style mercenary campaign. Although I do have two complaints about the game: the learning curve is quite steep, particularly for the campaign, and second, with large battles (50+ mechs) the AI takes forever to "think" before makes it's move (ie with a standard desktop rig it literally takes up to 10 minutes).
Honestly there's a severe lack of actual mech games that aren't anime-style or fast paced. I'm talking slow-paced, heavy, detailed damage model, type mech games. There's basically Battletech, MWO, and MW5, the latter two which still feel lacking since Pirhana Games is kind of doing 'just enough' to make them, IMHO. Kind of crazy to me that nothing else exists. MWO is kinda close, but in 2024 we should be enjoying a big campaign style Mechwarrior game that offers singleplayer and multiplayer...it just doesn't exist.
I think this is a fair comment. And you will notice the slower paced Mech games are all my favorite. I do find that the fast paced or anime titles often feel similar.
hells yes.. i refuse to touch any damn anime thing.. it looks like a 12yo drew their fantasy trash.. i would rather go back to a commodore 64.. the graphics were superior to the jap crap
MISSION FORCE CYBERSTORM from the 1990's was an almost complete clone of BATTLETECH with the Dev cheats enabled which for me was the only real way to play it compared to the base game which was nice but with the cheats enabled it truly became a tabletop mech simulator just like tabletop BATTLETECH. Its too bad the series did not survive after the subpar sequel. Would be awesome to see the first game come back with a graphical overhaul. Thanks for the fantastic list.
If you like 2D Sidescroller Mecha Games too, i can recommend Assault Suit Valken / Leynos (in the west maybe better known as cybernator) which were originally SNES titles but are available on Steam/Playstation (though the port is not the best sadly) Or the spiritual successor "Hardcore Mecha" (which is currently on sale for 5 bucks) which is more modern and with better graphics and more balanced gameplay (the first 2 are arcade titles with the steep difficulty curve and short gameplay duration that comes with those games) little sidenote to Hardcore Mecha "DLC" Packs : those are additional suits for the multiplayer that i think no one rly plays anymore.
I really wish there was an action mech game with good melee combat, that also lets you claim/be granted a fief on a proper space map. In other words, I'd like to play something like the story of the Gray Death Legion books.
Hey I know I'm a bit late here, but there's games that are not exclusively Mech games that have them in, of all of them the most awesome that I recall isntantly it's E.D.F 4 and 5(maybe 6 as well but I haven't tried it), just look for E.D.F. 4 Giant Robot Fights, there's also Smaller Mechs and a class that uses Power Armor which practically a Mech.
Supreme Commander 2 is a dumbed down version of 1. For me it was the first heartbreak of waiting for fancy releases. :( So I beg to differ subjectively.
My wishlist are: 1) Titanfall 2 2) The Riftbreaker Game I have played so far: 1) Into the breach.( On mobile) 2) Titanfall Assault (On mobile) Riftbreaker reminds me of an old sega mega drive classic Battletech...man I love that game.
Damn, own and have finished all but two. When I say "finished" I mean campaigns. Considering all the add-ons and updates, Mechwarrior 4 Vengence and Mercenaries are very much still going back to. Hawken Reborn...ummmm. If you're a nut it's worth having a go and it free (but then something's like this, it should strictly be a demo).
Just try ZOE2, man. It's amazing gameplay, visual, story and music wise. Even for a remastered ps2 game. The first one might be important for the story, but it's a bit worse than the second game.
The mechs in Front Mission said the same way as Wagner (Vogner) since Wanzer is poor German for "Wanderung Panzer", so despite being spelled "WANZER" its said as "VON-ZER" Front Mission 2 is also already released and there were plans to release the 3rd game as well. another mech game from some of the original Armored Core devs from the draught between Verdict Day and 6 is Daemon X Machina which has somewhat decent customization but suffers from enemy mechs being spongy in terms of damage.
Hey, LT gaming. I have been looking for a old mech game that I used to play. It was similar to clash of clans and had most of its mechanics similar to it except we couldn't bulk deploy units and only 1 to 6 units at a time depending on the level progression😢 Please help me
Would love a realistic military simulation style of smaller mechs set in complex rough terrain such as dense forests, mountainous terrains, caverns/gorges/valleys and swamps/bogs where it makes sense to have Mechs with their high mobility and humanoid capabilities instead of futuristic tanks that would otherwise blow them up to smithereens with ease. All these other mech games are silly fantasy, with minor exceptions like Titanfall to some extent which does not have tanks to worry about anyway.
LOL "Wanzer" is short for "walking panzer", but yes, to a native english speaker, this WILL sound weird XD A title i think deserves being on the list is Megaton Musashi, but that´s a bit of a unique one, so judge by yourself.
"...the mediocre strategy layer..." That comment made me think, surely he's talking about the "this looks amazing but there's a mechanic or something missing in the gameplay right? I mean this is very close to a point and click experience"
While Battletech is solid on it's own what really makes it are the mods. There are at least three major mods that bring the game more in line with the lore and it's tabletop origins via reworked skills, MASSIVE numbers of extra mechs, weapons, technologies, a full map and expanded timeline.
Base game + DLCs is already hard enough on my computer
Battletech has at least two Mods that make the game VERY different and extremely replayable. Battletech Advanced 3062 and Rogue Tech are both mods that are active with new content and fascinating changes to the vanilla gameplay.
Man we are blessed with armored core 6. One of the best games of all time
Word. I love Armored Core 6 so much.
Got it right before Christmas and I am already halfway finished the NG++ Campaign.
titanfall 3 is the only thing we need
It would be great to see this! Titanfall 2 is still an impressive game.
battletech is a great game imo. titanfall looks boring. kids game.
Lies. MechWarrior is the truth and the light 📜🕯️🤖👨⚖️
That we'll never get cause EA are idiots
@@NotHappening-b8tcouldn't be more wrong. Titanfall is genuinely such a good game.
Mechabellum is absolutely incredible. One of the most underrated games I've ever played.
Another genre I love! I've been a fan of Battletech/Mechwarrior in forever (House Steiner and Magistracy of Canopus being my favorite factions).
Yeah likewise! I really enjoy these games :) And I read a lot of the Battletech books :)
So you like assault mechs and canonical catgirls. I see you there buddy
They could have done so much more with (paradox's) Battletech . But They lost the IP . Since Battletech is trademarked. phieraa hold s the the Ip Right now for another 2 years I believe.
Its a sin to be a variety mech fan and not try Zone of the Enders 2. Its a Kojima's mech game with a great story, amazing soundtrack and probably the fastest pace mech combat apart from AC4. It also has NG+ where you can unlock new mechs, weapons and minigames (including a pvp fighting mode). Its in my top 3 for sure.
uhh sure.. because to be a mech fan you must love asian filth :') i would sooner end my family lives than play some trash jap graphics game.. assume there is a tentacle monster and a school girl there too?
I still play Titanfall 2 co-op every weekend. Still haven't quite maxed out Monarch. The servers died for a while but Apex brought it back to life. I also play Mech 5 Mercs every weekend. Just a great sandbox with an endless game loop.
I was surprised how good it still is 🚀🚀
Metal Fatigue is worth the shout too.
I play that game so much
AirMech Arena is a ton of fun. And Hard Core Mecha is great too.
Some of the overhaul mods for Battletech, such as Battletech Advanced 3062, or my personal preference RogueTech, hugely expand on the base game, adding major new features -- RogueTech I can confirm adds such features as drop 2 lances (over the base game's one), completely overhauls salvage making it more realistic, adds (hundreds? of) new pilots, new factions, as well as hundreds, if not thousands of new unique mechs, even allows the command and refit tanks, air units and Battle Armour -- making such mods an almost must have, once completing the vanilla compaign...
Bigger Drops allows you to purchase and upgrade a second drop ship to bring up to four more mechs. I don't know if it's used in RougeTech, I know BTA 3062 uses it. It's available as a stand alone mod. Adding a second lance massively expands the gameplay, even without any other changes.
@@stuartendo-streeter4903 yeah, RogueTech has had an upgrade path for a second drop ship for some time, which unlocks a second mech lance, and additional vehicle deployment slots, as well as increased drop tonnage limits...
I'm looking forward to Mechwarrior 5: Clans. Should be out in October.
Totally agree 🚀
I've finished The Riftbreaker last week and it's amazing. Also the developer is from my country so it is great to see this game on the list 😁
If you add Templar Battle Force you have to add all the space hulk games.
Worth noting that both MW5: Mercenaries and Battletech have a ton of mods that add hundreds of hours of replay-ability. I recommend YAML and Coyote's mission pack for the former and Roguetech for the latter!
Totally! Been modding Mechwarrior 5 🚀
Roguetech is such an experience !
Roguetech is super fun. I've spent well over 100 hours with it. Definitely the full Battletech experience. I actually started here in the Battletech mod-verse and really enjoyed my time here.
The BTA3062 mod has many of the same toys as Roguetech, but is slightly easier on the old CPU/load times and changes fewer things. And as someone whose gaming time is currently at a premium, BTA3062 is what I play right now. Have also spent over 100 hours with it as well.
I just want a mod to pull the Mech lab out of Online. I've never felt more in control of my Mech.
@@Illwraithif what you are saying is that you want a mod to make MW5's mechlab the same as the one in MWO, then you want to use Yet Another MechLab (YAML), as it does exactly that. Also recommend adding Yet Another Weapon for the missing weapons (that start appearing post 3050).
Show familiar titles in there! Great list brother!
Really great list! So many great action titles and I also really enjoy Mechwarrior 5 and Battletech. A few here that I didnt know about also so will be looking to pick them up :)
Thanks for the feedback as always!
Thanks for the List!!!
Iron Brigade was a blast. Great single and co-op tower defense. Decent customization on it.
Great game, wish there was another.
Great list chapz… as always, detailed and knowledgeable… how about a co op? Long overdue methinks… keep em coming 🐸💫
Armored Core 6 was great for 2024. For me personally, the best Mech combat I have experienced is In Helldivers 2. The Emancipator mech is like the Raidar X from Macross. It feels weighty, strong but weak. Physical attacks, and, in and out mecha combat for the best combined arms gameplay. Like MechAssault, but better.
I have to jump back in and try the mechs!
@@LTGamingUA-cam you won't be disappointed. Your mech-spectations will be met.
wait does it feel all week?
@@Tymelost Typo fixed. I hope that fulfills your life now.
I'm so glad that you included Mech Engineer! It's a great little game and really does need to have the spotlight shine on how great it really can be.
As I get older I've learned that Steam Reviews, unless they are Red, are often fairly easy to ignore in favore of content like this.
Yeah it's a good game and I'm sceptical on steam reviews but like to include them if I align more or less to the rating 🚀
Yeah, I was going to say this. Imo if your reviewing a game 30 hours in, you've gotten your money's worth from it. And there are plenty of negative reviews with well more than 30 hours.
I am happy to see that Mechwarior Online is on the list, its my favorite video game, and I feel like its underrated.
MWO is a fun game but most players are worthless. Poke themselfs to death, to stupid for torso twist, lrm noobs and the ranking system is crap as hell... You tank 1k dmg but get a derank because you do 300dmg or your team lost and you are just the 4th best player in your team.
@@kaiwinhall5199 While I agree with a few of the thing you mentioned. I would like to mention that damage tanked is a fairly irrelevant stat, and tanking lots of damage does very little for your team except for a few scenarios that are rare because of the pugs incompetence, also it takes much more skill to do damage then to tank damage so it should consider damage done as a more valuable metric.
I have learned that I have way more fun if I expect less of the pugs, otherwise I would spend way to much time angry at something that is extremely difficult and inconsistent to try and control, I instead focus on myself and my own performance and doing as much damage as I can and what I could have done better. your individual affect on a match can actually have a huge impact on your wl even if solo dropping.
But the main reason I love mwo nowadays is just for comp not qp or anything like that, comp is 100x more fun then qp or faction or eventq imo.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi Tanking dmg is as important as doing dmg but most pugs are to stupid to take advantage of it when an enemy is focused on you. Doing dmg i´s as easy as tanking dmg just lrm the fuck out of an enemy and you got 700+ dmg in a game because well most pugs are stupid xD.
I agree comp is 100 times more fun then pug and it was so from the start. I quit MWO 9 years ago and comp 12vs12 was far more fun then pug but most fun back those days i had in 12vs12 faction play. I started playing again this year with a friend and sadly faction warfare is dead.
And yes your own preformance has a high impact of the match but if your team is doing the nescar thing again and spread out when the enemy do a deathball you are fucked.
It although is very important which main time is it you play. European players are mostly trash (what is bad for me because i am german and this is my maintime xD). US maintime is far more organized and far more fun.
@@kaiwinhall5199 I find the NA prime time to have much more passive players, and the EU primetime to be much more nascary, and I find that OC prime time is a bit of both just with worse players.
I would say most of the time tanking dmg is not as useful as doing damage in qp just because of how unreliable it is, lots of pugs won't be able to actually take advantage of it, and I see lots of pugs do very little damage and die instantly, the 1000 damage they tanked from being in a bad position is far less useful then someone who took only 100 damage but did over 1000 dmg. and lots of the people who die instantly with no damage will go on to complain to team members who might actually be doing something useful, like a sniper who is doing lots of damage and controlling a lot of the map but is taking very little damage, and they will complain that they are losing because mechs like the sniper aren't tanking, basically it gets used as an excuse for being trash at the game fairly often.
Basically trying to say that its much easier to take advantage of damage done then it is to take advantage of damage taken, especially for pugs.
While if you are doing lots of damage even if your aim is trash, you are still doing damage, which is guaranteed to help your team win, and are very likely controlling more of the map then someone who did very little damage but tanked a lot.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi the fact that most pugs are stupid doesn't change the fact that tanking is important as doing PINPOINT dmg is! A player with 500dmg and 500tanked 2solo kills is far more usefull for the team as an noob assault with 1k dmg spread all over the enemies armor and a quick death with less than 300dmg tanked and no kill! But the worthless ranking system will give him a rank up even if he is one of the big reasons why his team lost. Cowards in assaults hide and poke till death are one of the worst problems with pugs.
EU primetime is the worst of all because the nescar thing is the most common here and the players are to stupid to react to a changing situation. They will keep on a far spread out nescar till death even if the enemy has already his fingers in their buttholes. EU players aiming is better as it is in OC but both are completely unorganized and worthless in brawl plus EU players have the biggest number of lore friendly noobs who push builds worse than trial mech because muhhh In TaBlEtOp BaTtLeTeCh tHiS iS ThE FiTtInG oF tHiS VaRiAnT fRoM tHiS MeCh.
And the fact that most good players in EU only care for themselfs instead of organizing the trashy pugs only makes things worse and that is the biggest difference between EU and OC compared to US primetime.
But one thing i like about the community is that the people can take a joke and you have close to none rainbow fashists with huge butthurt everytime someone says something their sick mind could imagine as offensive against some fairytales.
I really enjoyed the different game genres on this list. Thanks!!!
I would like to mention two games which aren't on this list but I believe to be absolutely noteworthy. 1) Metal Fatigue: a very innovative, if a little rough around the edges, RTS with customizable mechs. 2) Baldr Sky: a half Visual Novel, half top-down mech action game with a LOT of unlockable customization and very deep and satisfying combat system. But it's not for the faint of heart, the story has some seriously disturbing moments.
I'd like to mention some older but still modern mech games that deserve more love. First is Chromehounds on the 360. This is a sorely underrated mech game that looks and plays very well for the slower more deliberate type of mech games. Next is Lost Planet. While certainly not underrated by any means, I feel like this game has been tossed to the wayside more as time goes on. Finally, the oldest game I'll mention is Mech Assault. It's an Xbox game that is essentially a more arcade-like version of BattleTech and Mech Warrior.
Why no love for MegaMek/MekHQ? Because it is not a Steam title? A couple of these on this list are not really mech game, more like anime power armor. Still a good list that reminded me of a couple old games I need to replay.
Megamek is more of a board game
There are several turn-based strategy titles on the list already. @ricky6608
Thanks for the list, I have made a few additions to my Steam wishlist 😁
Would Brigador not be an isometric, more than a top down?
One recommendation I would make is Bionic Dues, fun little game with awesome music.
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As someone who has played Mecha Knights; Nightmare…it absolutely deserves more recognition than it gets. Its basically Armored Core meets Attack on Titan meets eldrich horror. Its one of those combinations you never see in another game, and it executes that combination so perfectly it makes you wonder why nobody else has done it before.
Sigh, why can't there be a Battletech 2 in the making. Yes BT is great, especially with mods - but still i would love a sequel with a bigger campaign, better narrative, more mechs, weapon-types and bigger battles.
thanks for the video, the last time i played mechwarrior (3) was in the 90s. every time i checked it out since then there were provisions to stop my 7/14/7 shadowcat with 2 PPCs and a bunch of medium lasers. vox machinae looks like a real step forward but let me guess everything is stompy :) back in the 1980s i used to play the first version of warhammer 40k. played halflings on hoverboards with meltabomb grenades from slingshots. nobody would let me play that again either. i don't understand how people can even shoot without moving.
Recently I went into my purchase history on steam because I was bored and learned my first game I bought and played on steam was supreme commander 2! So wild seeing it on this list, I kinda wanna go play it again now
Would love to see a remake or similar game like Vanguard Bandits. That game has created an itch that can’t be covered by many games
The Developer AstroPort has a number of Side scrolling mech arcade games worth taking a look at. There is Mech Blaze, Armed Seven, Steel Strider, and Gigantic army as platform games, and then a number of scrolling shooters as well as well.
Battletech where all other mecha derived from. Nothing beats the original, great list of games you have here ❤
Battletech originally copied macross
And gundam created the genre
@Azure9577 thanks good to know
Love your lists and really appreciate your steam deck considerations. Keep em coming!
Many planned on the road map 🚀🚀
There's a free open source Java based Battletech Mechwarrior knock-off game called Megamek. It's a direct copy of the turn based tabletop game. Megamek has all the official Mechs we know and love. You can play single battles or a sandbox style mercenary campaign. Although I do have two complaints about the game: the learning curve is quite steep, particularly for the campaign, and second, with large battles (50+ mechs) the AI takes forever to "think" before makes it's move (ie with a standard desktop rig it literally takes up to 10 minutes).
Brigador is such a gem
Honestly there's a severe lack of actual mech games that aren't anime-style or fast paced. I'm talking slow-paced, heavy, detailed damage model, type mech games. There's basically Battletech, MWO, and MW5, the latter two which still feel lacking since Pirhana Games is kind of doing 'just enough' to make them, IMHO.
Kind of crazy to me that nothing else exists. MWO is kinda close, but in 2024 we should be enjoying a big campaign style Mechwarrior game that offers singleplayer and multiplayer...it just doesn't exist.
I think this is a fair comment. And you will notice the slower paced Mech games are all my favorite. I do find that the fast paced or anime titles often feel similar.
hells yes.. i refuse to touch any damn anime thing.. it looks like a 12yo drew their fantasy trash.. i would rather go back to a commodore 64.. the graphics were superior to the jap crap
A solid list. Even some new ones for me. Nice.
What a great list! I didn't miss anything!
Thanks dude!
That was a great list, thanks! 😀
Yeah this was a fun one to make and actually the biggest one I've ever made 😂😇
MISSION FORCE CYBERSTORM from the 1990's was an almost complete clone of BATTLETECH with the Dev cheats enabled which for me was the only real way to play it compared to the base game which was nice but with the cheats enabled it truly became a tabletop mech simulator just like tabletop BATTLETECH. Its too bad the series did not survive after the subpar sequel. Would be awesome to see the first game come back with a graphical overhaul.
Thanks for the fantastic list.
Armored core 6 is my first mech game, it's absolutely best experience
You might want to try Project Nimbus. It's an aerial mech combat much like Strike Suit Zero.
Great list! Thank you!
I would add and highly recommend Gearbits, it's pretty much a blend of Armored Core, Ace Combat, and Earth Defense Force and it's great.
Also Mech Armada and M.A.S.S. Builder. As well as the two upcoming games Granvir and B.C. Piezophile.
Thanks for the great suggestions!
If you like 2D Sidescroller Mecha Games too, i can recommend
Assault Suit Valken / Leynos (in the west maybe better known as cybernator) which were originally SNES titles but are available on Steam/Playstation (though the port is not the best sadly)
Or the spiritual successor "Hardcore Mecha" (which is currently on sale for 5 bucks) which is more modern and with better graphics and more balanced gameplay (the first 2 are arcade titles with the steep difficulty curve and short gameplay duration that comes with those games)
little sidenote to Hardcore Mecha "DLC" Packs : those are additional suits for the multiplayer that i think no one rly plays anymore.
Thanks cracking games there for mech fans like myself. I'll suggest one it's called Gatling Gears (steam/ps3/x360).
Thanks! we glad you enjoyed it :)
Brigador is insane! Highly recommended.
Nice list, going back to Steam to play some of them
GREAT VIDEO - saved me so much time, well made!
@@k-town8821 much appreciated! That's what we do here 🚀🚀
Should give megaton musashi wired a try, it’s great
I really wish there was an action mech game with good melee combat, that also lets you claim/be granted a fief on a proper space map. In other words, I'd like to play something like the story of the Gray Death Legion books.
after titanfall 2 and anthem there are no other mech game that sparked my fire for mech games
Hey I know I'm a bit late here, but there's games that are not exclusively Mech games that have them in, of all of them the most awesome that I recall isntantly it's E.D.F 4 and 5(maybe 6 as well but I haven't tried it), just look for E.D.F. 4 Giant Robot Fights, there's also Smaller Mechs and a class that uses Power Armor which practically a Mech.
I don't know if it's on PC but Megaton Musashi is awesome!
Quick question: Why did you put in the FIRST Front Mission remake & not the second?
The first one is much better received!
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wow, I didn't realize microprose still existed, they were titans back in the 90s...
Supreme Commander 2 is a dumbed down version of 1.
For me it was the first heartbreak of waiting for fancy releases. :(
So I beg to differ subjectively.
It's a great game I really enjoyed it.
@@GeordiLaForgery Compared to the first part? Or you never tried flowthru economy, and real huge maps in there?
Just curious.
@@normal6969 I've played them all, 1, FA and 2, all fantastic. I like the way 2 streamlined things to make it a quicker game especially for online.
My wishlist are:
1) Titanfall 2
2) The Riftbreaker
Game I have played so far:
1) Into the breach.( On mobile)
2) Titanfall Assault (On mobile)
Riftbreaker reminds me of an old sega mega drive classic Battletech...man I love that game.
Forgot about Relayer. A grid, turned-based jrpg with great battle animations.
Damn, own and have finished all but two. When I say "finished" I mean campaigns. Considering all the add-ons and updates, Mechwarrior 4 Vengence and Mercenaries are very much still going back to. Hawken Reborn...ummmm. If you're a nut it's worth having a go and it free (but then something's like this, it should strictly be a demo).
Ring of Red is my favourite on the Ps2 😎
STEEL HUNTERS
in 2024 , this one is currently opened for playtest
Will check it out!
And my selection most goes to Brigador_UpArmored_Edition
Thank you for posting this video onto your channel sir.
Im surprised Mech Merc Company is left out.
Its very unfinished with no sign of any improvement so it didn't make the 25. But good suggestion!
@@LTGamingUA-cam good point
Striker suit zero
I was searching that...
Just try ZOE2, man. It's amazing gameplay, visual, story and music wise. Even for a remastered ps2 game. The first one might be important for the story, but it's a bit worse than the second game.
whats the farming game in the introduction
I will hope for a long time that we get another game the same caliber of titanfall.
The mechs in Front Mission said the same way as Wagner (Vogner) since Wanzer is poor German for "Wanderung Panzer", so despite being spelled "WANZER" its said as "VON-ZER"
Front Mission 2 is also already released and there were plans to release the 3rd game as well.
another mech game from some of the original Armored Core devs from the draught between Verdict Day and 6 is Daemon X Machina which has somewhat decent customization but suffers from enemy mechs being spongy in terms of damage.
Hey, LT gaming. I have been looking for a old mech game that I used to play. It was similar to clash of clans and had most of its mechanics similar to it except we couldn't bulk deploy units and only 1 to 6 units at a time depending on the level progression😢
Please help me
missing out on mech warrior living legends tbh
Titanfall 3 and mechassault 3 both games need a comeback we got Armored core 6 but we need more lol
Add Gearbits to your list. The graphics are very dated, but it has good action, great movement, good mechs, and and a good assortment of weapons.
Would love a realistic military simulation style of smaller mechs set in complex rough terrain such as dense forests, mountainous terrains, caverns/gorges/valleys and swamps/bogs where it makes sense to have Mechs with their high mobility and humanoid capabilities instead of futuristic tanks that would otherwise blow them up to smithereens with ease. All these other mech games are silly fantasy, with minor exceptions like Titanfall to some extent which does not have tanks to worry about anyway.
gunmetal should be here as well front mission evolved and lost planet.
Loved strike suit zero.
i think war robot frontiers should have been included is nice physics and detail with multiplayer
hey y'all, just a heads up that hawken is back in all its glory. multiplayer capable, 100% free
Capcom Cyberbots is amazing fight mechas!
ZONE OF THE ENDERS PROJEKT MARS, ARMORED CORE, XENOCORE, TITANFALL 2, EARTH DEFENCE 5.
I'm surprised m.a.s.s. builder isn't mentioned in the list. Maybe because it's still in EA?
I missed that one! Il fall back on the Early Access excuse haha
@@LTGamingUA-cam A new mech game to look into. Joy! 😉
@@Wiedadde it looks really fun :)
M.A.S.S Builder - In Early Access for like 20 bucks.. insane game for Mech stuff.
Likely won't be a p2w game as it's P2L (Some of the bosses absolutely stomp your ass out)
Thanks 👍
Would be cool if you tell the others plateforme where some are aviable. Save times for new guys.
TITANFALL 2 MENTIONED
BEST SHOOTER GAMEPLAY EVER
We need BattleTech 2. I’ve got a few hundred hours in the first one.
Kinda weird to see Strike Suit Zero listed here.
Well its Mechs...in Space 🚀
@@LTGamingUA-cam It's weird because I was the original lead game designer on it.
www.mobygames.com/person/153124/oliver-barder/
Thank you
Most Welcome! :)
@@LTGamingUA-camsteam should thank you too. Been looking for some good games to play. And bingo with your review I got a couple.
@@toddkorson8207 Amazing this is always the goal!
Your missing the successor of Supreme commander / Total Annihilation. Beyond All Reason! Its my top 1 RTS Mech game.
Zone of the Enders 2 in VR??!!
It be awesome on ps5 vr2 any mech game
LOL "Wanzer" is short for "walking panzer", but yes, to a native english speaker, this WILL sound weird XD
A title i think deserves being on the list is Megaton Musashi, but that´s a bit of a unique one, so judge by yourself.
M.A.S.S. Builder is number 1 in customizing!!!
Iron harvest is really good
Iron rebellion ftw!!
"...the mediocre strategy layer..." That comment made me think, surely he's talking about the "this looks amazing but there's a mechanic or something missing in the gameplay right? I mean this is very close to a point and click experience"
I can't decipher what this is on about tbh 😂🤔