Mecha Games Watchlist
Upcoming Mecha & some Robot Games to watch out for in 2023/2024 and beyond. Includes Steam Early Access titles, Indies, Non-indies And Japanese mecha titles in development. These games are picked from what I feel have potential. Big or small. Links below. Constantly updating.
Legend:
AC = Armored Core
Dev = Developer
TBA = To be announced
VN = Visual Novel
Currently not on Backloggd:
Dolls Next - 2024 - Nier-like, + Mecha + SOTC bosses huh
Lancer Tactics - Late 2025 release
Hammer - Low poly, quick-and-dirty-boost-and-shooty mech game in development - TBA
Project Six - Dev has stated they will release the game on Steam. - TBA
MachineClad - Another AC-like - TBA
Armor Attack
BattleMercs - A fan-made BattleTech game, based on the Crescent Hawks Inception, Revenge, and MechWarrior I. -
Dev changed game to MetalMercs - TBA release. Can follow updates through Gaming Jay youtube channel.
Here's a small summary about it: Metal Mercs is a thrilling new indie game that puts you in the driver's seat of a mercenary unit, navigating the treacherous landscapes of the Core's warring houses. Set in a universe where power and influence reign supreme, you must lead your team through a perilous journey of combat, strategy, and cunning diplomacy.
Inspired by the tactical BattleTech DOS games of the 80's and 90's, in Metal Mercs you'll take on the role of a seasoned mercenary commander, seeking fortune and fame in the midst of the Core's never-ending conflicts. Assemble your formidable unit, equip them with cutting-edge mechs, and embark on a journey to serve the powerful Great Houses.
CyberHeart - Single player story driven mech shooter in an open world - Could use a bit more polish, but the potential is there. - Q3 2024 -
Project Firefly - Roguelite Mecha SRPG in development - TBA
Psycho Patrol R From the developer of Cruelty Squad. Shifting gears for FULL ON MECHA COMBAT. I love the change
Changelog:
- Daemon X Machina 2 has been titled Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion. Announced from Marvelous Showcase 2023 May
- Vactics added
Part of my Watchlist. A series of lists of upcoming games in various genres to keep an eye out for potential.
Also an attempt to organize my Mecha Backlog
Legend:
AC = Armored Core
Dev = Developer
TBA = To be announced
VN = Visual Novel
Currently not on Backloggd:
Dolls Next - 2024 - Nier-like, + Mecha + SOTC bosses huh
Lancer Tactics - Late 2025 release
Hammer - Low poly, quick-and-dirty-boost-and-shooty mech game in development - TBA
Project Six - Dev has stated they will release the game on Steam. - TBA
MachineClad - Another AC-like - TBA
Armor Attack
Dev changed game to MetalMercs - TBA release. Can follow updates through Gaming Jay youtube channel.
Here's a small summary about it: Metal Mercs is a thrilling new indie game that puts you in the driver's seat of a mercenary unit, navigating the treacherous landscapes of the Core's warring houses. Set in a universe where power and influence reign supreme, you must lead your team through a perilous journey of combat, strategy, and cunning diplomacy.
Inspired by the tactical BattleTech DOS games of the 80's and 90's, in Metal Mercs you'll take on the role of a seasoned mercenary commander, seeking fortune and fame in the midst of the Core's never-ending conflicts. Assemble your formidable unit, equip them with cutting-edge mechs, and embark on a journey to serve the powerful Great Houses.
CyberHeart - Single player story driven mech shooter in an open world - Could use a bit more polish, but the potential is there. - Q3 2024 -
Project Firefly - Roguelite Mecha SRPG in development - TBA
Psycho Patrol R From the developer of Cruelty Squad. Shifting gears for FULL ON MECHA COMBAT. I love the change
Changelog:
- Daemon X Machina 2 has been titled Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion. Announced from Marvelous Showcase 2023 May
- Vactics added
Part of my Watchlist. A series of lists of upcoming games in various genres to keep an eye out for potential.
Also an attempt to organize my Mecha Backlog
44 Games
2D SOTC Except MECHS
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2081670/CALAMITY_CREATURES/
- single dev
- free currently
- will take 3-4 years
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2081670/CALAMITY_CREATURES/
- single dev
- free currently
- will take 3-4 years
Heavy Front Mission vibes for this indie RPG. Their dev log videos are also really fascinating to watch where they delve deep into the inspirations for Kriegsfront.
Looks like 2025 release or more? From the latest dev log
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1561740/view/3645139528231326019
Looks like 2025 release or more? From the latest dev log
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1561740/view/3645139528231326019
Mecha Story rpg and mercenary outfit
https://zechatactics.com/newsletter/
https://twitter.com/zechatactics
https://zechatactics.com/newsletter/
https://twitter.com/zechatactics
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2473720/Vulture_Unlimited_Frontier_0/
"Vulture," a giant humanoid weapon.
In a world occupied by giant exoplanets, stages are prepared for various situations such as melee battles with giant creatures, one-on-one battles between Vulture, ambushes, underground battles, and escort missions.
Players can choose the armaments and parts that are advantageous to each enemy to take advantage of the battle.
Vulture - AC vibes except modern - TBA
"Vulture," a giant humanoid weapon.
In a world occupied by giant exoplanets, stages are prepared for various situations such as melee battles with giant creatures, one-on-one battles between Vulture, ambushes, underground battles, and escort missions.
Players can choose the armaments and parts that are advantageous to each enemy to take advantage of the battle.
Vulture - AC vibes except modern - TBA
Only Episode 1 has been released so far with more episodes being paid DLCs. Think of this as Technically in the Indie JRPG but hey they feature mechs prominently so it counts!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2182840/Lie_of_Caelum__Episode_1/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2182840/Lie_of_Caelum__Episode_1/
Indie RPG styled as an JRPG. Xenogears inspiration
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116200/ECO_BREAKER/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116200/ECO_BREAKER/
Third person action shooter
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245480/SYNDUALITY_Echo_of_Ada/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245480/SYNDUALITY_Echo_of_Ada/
Starbites Korean turn based mecha rpg
Mech, Farming, Base-building
https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/bounty-star
https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/bounty-star
Action JRPG
Megaton Musashi: Wired is an action role-playing video game developed and published by LEVEL-5.
About
Megaton Musashi: Wired is releasing worldwide on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam. There’s even exclusive content for Megaton Musashi: Wired on the way!
Cross-Play
Megaton Musashi: Wired will feature online multiplayer for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC (Steam)! Try Colosseum Battle and take down massive enemies as a team or fight other players in three-versus-three clashes! Everyone can enjoy Musashi‘s one-of-a-kind robot action together!
Megaton Musashi: Wired is an action role-playing video game developed and published by LEVEL-5.
About
Megaton Musashi: Wired is releasing worldwide on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam. There’s even exclusive content for Megaton Musashi: Wired on the way!
Cross-Play
Megaton Musashi: Wired will feature online multiplayer for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC (Steam)! Try Colosseum Battle and take down massive enemies as a team or fight other players in three-versus-three clashes! Everyone can enjoy Musashi‘s one-of-a-kind robot action together!
Action Indie Rpg - Still in Steam Early Access
https://store.steampowered.com/app/956680/MASS_Builder/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/956680/MASS_Builder/
Start your interstellar homestead in this peaceful open-world farming adventure!
Build your sustainable exofarm, grow alien crops, and explore a new world full of mystery with up to three friends!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677110/Lightyear_Frontier/
Build your sustainable exofarm, grow alien crops, and explore a new world full of mystery with up to three friends!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677110/Lightyear_Frontier/
An Indie RPG - Styled as a mix of Valkyria Chronicles X Front Mission
Still in Steam Early Access
https://store.steampowered.com/app/443000/DUAL_GEAR/
Dual Gear News?! Nearly a year of silence
https://steamcommunity.com/app/443000/eventcomments/6226836983336992454?snr=1_5_9_
Still in Steam Early Access
https://store.steampowered.com/app/443000/DUAL_GEAR/
Dual Gear News?! Nearly a year of silence
https://steamcommunity.com/app/443000/eventcomments/6226836983336992454?snr=1_5_9_
From the dev's who made Brigador: Up-Armored Edition comes another Story driven action isometric mecha game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/903930/Brigador_Killers/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/903930/Brigador_Killers/
Indie RPG VN with mechs.
A love letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a visual novel adventure in the spirit of classic PC-9800 titles.
Dev has confirmed in steam forums the game will feature mechs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/Stories_from_Sol_The_GunDog/
^DEMO is currently out
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2118420/discussions/0/3768983413515015339/
A love letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a visual novel adventure in the spirit of classic PC-9800 titles.
Dev has confirmed in steam forums the game will feature mechs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/Stories_from_Sol_The_GunDog/
^DEMO is currently out
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2118420/discussions/0/3768983413515015339/
Side-scrolling robot action game The Scramble Vice announced for PC
Due out in 2024
https://www.gematsu.com/2023/09/side-scrolling-robot-action-game-the-scramble-vice-announced-for-pc
Due out in 2024
https://www.gematsu.com/2023/09/side-scrolling-robot-action-game-the-scramble-vice-announced-for-pc
Muv Luv in Steam Early Access. Yeah you heard that right. Muv Luv. Known for making visual novels for Muv-Luv, is making a 3D Mecha Action game in their universe. Complete genre shift.
Project MIKHAIL is a mecha action game with three different modes of play:
1. A Story Mode with a full story for players to enjoy.
2. Frontier Mode, an online mode where all users inhabit a shared world, and each player’s actions have an influence on the story's outcome.
3. A PvP mode where players fight each other in their Tactical Surface Fighters.
In Story Mode, the player takes the role of Shirogane Takeru, the hero of Muv-Luv Alternative
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557480/Project_MIKHAIL_A_MuvLuv_War_Story/
Project MIKHAIL is a mecha action game with three different modes of play:
1. A Story Mode with a full story for players to enjoy.
2. Frontier Mode, an online mode where all users inhabit a shared world, and each player’s actions have an influence on the story's outcome.
3. A PvP mode where players fight each other in their Tactical Surface Fighters.
In Story Mode, the player takes the role of Shirogane Takeru, the hero of Muv-Luv Alternative
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557480/Project_MIKHAIL_A_MuvLuv_War_Story/
A modern re-imagining of the classic game "Future Cop L.A.P.D.”, you are a rookie cop in the Advanced Weapons and Tactics Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department in the year 2195. Your journey begins in a combat simulator where you learn to pilot a police mech, utilizing a vast array of advanced weaponry and gear. Eventually, you will take the fight to the streets, reclaiming your city from the vicious gangs controlling the various districts and saving its citizenry from an urban dystopia.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/649560/LAPD_2195/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/649560/LAPD_2195/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428520/Mech_Engineer/
Mech Engineer – a dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
The gameplay is focused on resource management and mech assembly. But you are able to give simple orders to the pilots.
Mech Engineer – a dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
The gameplay is focused on resource management and mech assembly. But you are able to give simple orders to the pilots.
Face the interstellar Archangels in a turn-based tactical game with deckbuilding elements and destructible environment, where you pilot powerful mechs to save the Earth from destruction.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332970/ARC_SEED
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332970/ARC_SEED
Third-person, roguelite, rpg
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371430/LavrockLast_Fortress/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371430/LavrockLast_Fortress/
Alternate 1980. Mech strategy game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1539240/VOLOT_Red_Odyssey/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1539240/VOLOT_Red_Odyssey/
Indie Shooter - Valfaris returns! More mechanized
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/
Scientist who's consciousness has been transferred to a mechanical shell. 2D action adventure game in Dieselpunk setting
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224030/Erra_Exordium/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224030/Erra_Exordium/
Pilot the Hyper-Advanced, mechanized assault suit: Cyber Lancer.
Purchase and upgrade weapons to take down waves upon waves of enemies!
Feast your eyes on Mind-Melting Sega Saturn inspired graphics!
Cyber Lancer is a third person, wave based, roguelike, shoot em up, where you pilot an up-gradable mech defeating hoards of mechanized enemies.
Choose from several mechs and master the various missions to become the top Cyber Lancer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100510/Cyber_Lancer/
Purchase and upgrade weapons to take down waves upon waves of enemies!
Feast your eyes on Mind-Melting Sega Saturn inspired graphics!
Cyber Lancer is a third person, wave based, roguelike, shoot em up, where you pilot an up-gradable mech defeating hoards of mechanized enemies.
Choose from several mechs and master the various missions to become the top Cyber Lancer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100510/Cyber_Lancer/
Get ready to experience an unforgettable adventure with Grendizer, the famous giant robot. This action/adventure game adapted from the cult animated series will immerse you in the heart of the universe of its creator, Go Nagai, and will give you the chance to pilot the most powerful robot and fight the forces of evil.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295970/UFO_ROBOT_GRENDIZER__THE_FEAST_OF_THE_WOLVES/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295970/UFO_ROBOT_GRENDIZER__THE_FEAST_OF_THE_WOLVES/
Take on the role of R3-M1, a newly activated robot, as they venture through a dark, dystopian world in search of answers. The clues lay buried within dust and ash, data files and audio clips left behind by decaying corpses from a not-so-distant past.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2258840/bioSynthetica/ - TBA
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2258840/bioSynthetica/ - TBA
This one is a bit of a stretch, but hey i saw mechs you can pilot here so I would say it counts. Remains to be seen how much of it is mech gameplay
FTD game - FPS, tower defense base building, first person shooter and you can pilot a mech.
-kinda ambitious but looks cool
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1566690/Outpost_Infinity_Siege/
-kinda ambitious but looks cool
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1566690/Outpost_Infinity_Siege/
Open-world space sim with fast-paced mech shooter and a captivating story.
https://phantomgalaxies.com/
https://phantomgalaxies.com/
Action packed rogue-lite, in which players can shapeshift between 4 different characters in real-time, all with unique active abilities and stylish attacks. Rapidly switch characters and combine abilities to slaughter enemies in stylish fashion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1866130/Morbid_Metal/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1866130/Morbid_Metal/
Announced at the game awards 2023. Mecha multiplayer, online coop. Think gundams against big mechanical enemies in cooperative play.
- High-octane mech combat returns in Hawken Reborn, an all-new Free-to-Play PVE experience that brings the franchise’s unique flavor of visceral first-person shooter gameplay to Illal, a world riddled with warring factions and a gripping narrative.
Reveal Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWn9VlAeaI
- Heading to Steam Early Access and SINGLE PLAYER yessssss but oof reception is hella bad for now. Hope they can come around so i'll be keeping an eye on them
Article:
https://www.pcgamer.com/five-years-later-a-new-hawken-is-coming-to-pc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/705040/HAWKEN_REBORN/
Reveal Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWn9VlAeaI
- Heading to Steam Early Access and SINGLE PLAYER yessssss but oof reception is hella bad for now. Hope they can come around so i'll be keeping an eye on them
Article:
https://www.pcgamer.com/five-years-later-a-new-hawken-is-coming-to-pc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/705040/HAWKEN_REBORN/
Mecharashi, formerly FRONT MISSION 2089: Borderscape, is a strategy role-playing video game developed by Langrisser devs. Mobile and PC. Still not released.
https://www.gematsu.com/games/mecharashi
https://www.gematsu.com/games/mecharashi
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2328310/CUSTOM_MECH_WARS/ - Launching this winter Worldwide.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2334170/Metal_Bringer/
In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world.
In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world.
Kinda like Into the Breach & Hoplite
1.0 just came out in June of this year
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1938290/Vactics/
1.0 just came out in June of this year
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1938290/Vactics/
I don't need to link this game by Fromsoftware. Since every mecha fan has this on their own list.
but i'll still drop a link here so more people know
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888160/ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON/
- Already out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888160/ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON/
- Already out!
Storm Trident is bringing us a remake of the playstation 1 japanese only Front Mission 2 to the west! Finally!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/front-mission-2-remake-switch/
Out now!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/front-mission-2-remake-switch/
Out now!
Roguelite Mecha Indie Rpg
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2055050/Cavalry_Girls/
out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2055050/Cavalry_Girls/
out now!