Games Like Mad Max

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.7%, Automobile Sim 19.2%, Open World 18.8%, Driving 9.5%, Racing 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches, built around driving, upgrading, and fighting with armed vehicles across a grim post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player / online co-op car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Driving 13.9%, Open World 11.7%, Automobile Sim 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses directly on fast, weaponized-car combat through a stylized post-apocalyptic desert.

Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 48.3%, Open World 23.9%, Action 6.8%, Racing 6.6%, Shooter 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its dusty mutant-filled wasteland, vehicular excursions, scavenged upgrades, and action-heavy exploration strongly echo Mad Max's world and tone.

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Open World 19.9%, Automobile Sim 12%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful open wasteland, roaming combat vehicles, enemy camps, and explosive action make it a strong modern alternative.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 49.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Third Person 9.4%, Action 5.3%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although multiplayer-focused, it captures the fantasy of assembling a personalized wasteland combat vehicle from scrap and taking it into brutal battles.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Open World 36.8%, Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Survival 12.4%, Third Person 5.3%, Third-Person Shooter 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely post-collapse setting, upgradeable motorcycle, scavenging, camps, and open-road survival create a similarly gritty journey.

Batman™: Arkham Knight brings the award-winning Arkham trilogy from Rocksteady Studios to its epic conclusion. Developed exclusively for New-Gen platforms, Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile.

Why similar: Open World 54%, Third Person 14.6%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 4.5%, Story Rich 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines free-roaming third-person brawling with a major vehicle-combat and upgrade loop through the Batmobile.

Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a fast, furious, armed-to-the-teeth, trigger-happy shooter, shifted into top gear! Take a white knuckle ride in this crazily addictive combat racing game.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 55.8%, Automobile Sim 18.7%, Racing 12.6%, Driving 4%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a combat-racing alternative centered on armed cars, upgrades, destruction, and aggressive wasteland-style driving.

CARMAGEDDON: MAX DAMAGE is HERE! And it's the antidote to Racing Games.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 42.2%, Racing 17.2%, Automobile Sim 12%, Driving 11.8%, Action 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers anarchic vehicular combat, destructive arenas, and the gleeful wrecking-ball energy of Mad Max's road battles.

With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.

Why similar: Open World 47.7%, Third-Person Shooter 9.8%, Third Person 8.5%, Action 8.3%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Mad Max's developer and open-world sandbox spirit, with vehicle hijacking, explosive combat, liberation activities, and huge destructive freedom.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Driving 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Survival 14.9%, Exploration 5.4%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more survival-oriented and eerie, its core loop of maintaining and upgrading a car for dangerous expeditions makes it especially relevant.

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Driving 20.1%, Open World 17.3%, Automobile Sim 13.9%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended driving, exploration, vehicle maintenance, and survival elements suit players who most enjoyed Mad Max's road-bound wasteland freedom.

Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

Why similar: Open World 48.7%, Third-Person Shooter 14.9%, Third Person 10.1%, Action 7.4%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A rugged open-world rebellion game with satisfying third-person combat, drivable vehicles, hostile outposts, and exceptional environmental destruction.

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Open World 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 30%, Third Person 7.6%, Story Rich 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a solitary trek across a ravaged landscape where careful route planning, vehicles, upgrades, and environmental survival drive the experience.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Open World 14.4%, Automobile Sim 14%, Racing 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic road trip centers on keeping a vehicle running while exploring dangerous desert routes and surviving the journey.

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Why similar: Open World 40.4%, Post-apocalyptic 33.2%, Action 6.5%, Multiplayer 4.8%, Survival 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful post-nuclear open world offers improvised weapons, hostile outposts, scavenging, and rough vehicle-based travel.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Open World 31.5%, Survival 4.7%, Exploration 4.4%, Third Person 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its large irradiated world, scavenging, settlement upgrades, environmental storytelling, and roaming combat offer a similarly compulsive wasteland adventure.

Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

Why similar: Driving 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Open World 18.5%, Automobile Sim 13.5%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A more relaxed but highly vehicle-centric desert survival sandbox about maintaining a car and seeing how far it can carry you.

Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Driving 18.8%, Open World 17.7%, Automobile Sim 11.2%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world post-apocalyptic survival with driving and combat, making the vehicle an important tool for staying alive.

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.3%, Open World 26.9%, Survival 10.2%, Action 4.9%, Story Rich 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs a bleak post-apocalyptic road journey with scavenging, weapon customization, dangerous excursions, and strongly atmospheric exploration.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.7%, Open World 34.3%, Survival 4.7%, RPG 3.9%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players drawn most to Mad Max's desolate frontier atmosphere, factions, scavenging, and freedom to roam a dangerous wasteland, it remains a superb fit.

Road Redemption lets you lead a biker gang on an epic journey across the country in this driving combat road rage adventure. Huge campaign, dozens of weapons, full 4-player co-op splitscreen.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 69.5%, Racing 14.8%, Third Person 5.8%, Action 5.5%, Multiplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It trades Max's car for a motorcycle but retains the violent road-warrior fantasy of vehicular chases, melee attacks, and weaponized travel.

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.5%, Driving 28.3%, Racing 26.2%, Action 4.7%, Multiplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its raw, weighty crashes and demolition events are ideal if the most appealing part of Mad Max was smashing rival vehicles to pieces.

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Why similar: Open World 41.6%, Post-apocalyptic 29.3%, Third Person 6.5%, RPG 5.1%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This harsh open-world sci-fi wasteland emphasizes factional survival, exploration, crafting, and tough third-person combat.

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic, driving, survival, fps, open-world game. Fight, help, trade with different factions. Find different cars and customize them. Scavenge, loot and survive the procedurally generated, open world of Apocalypter.

Why similar: Driving 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Open World 17.7%, Vehicular Combat 12%, Automobile Sim 9%

Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.

Why similar: Open World 55.4%, Third Person 14.2%, Action 11.4%, Adventure 4.7%, RPG 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the cars and wasteland, but its open zones, brutal third-person melee, enemy strongholds, and progression provide a similar action rhythm.

Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 40.2%, Driving 19.4%, Automobile Sim 15.4%, Racing 10.2%, Third Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This aggressive crash racer channels the destructive, ram-heavy side of Mad Max with combat-oriented events and vehicle wreckage.

Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.

Why similar: Open World 47.8%, Survival 15.5%, Action 10.5%, Third Person 10%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open urban apocalypse lets you improvise bizarre weaponized vehicles while fighting through large crowds and scavenging for supplies.

Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 38.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Driving 18.6%, Open World 15.4%, Racing 8%

Why You'll Like It: A more arcade-like choice, but it is built around mowing through apocalyptic hordes with upgradeable, weaponized vehicles.

Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Driving 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Third Person 4.1%

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 57%, Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Action 4.6%, Exploration 3.1%, RPG 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its tactical convoy management, vehicle upgrades, random roadside threats, and post-apocalyptic setting fit the broader road-warrior fantasy.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Open World 35.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 20.3%, Third Person 5.2%, Action 3.9%

A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Why similar: Open World 34.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Third-Person Shooter 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Third Person 5.1%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Open World 32.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Survival 18.6%, Third Person 5.7%, Action 4.5%

Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.

Why similar: Open World 56.6%, Third Person 10.4%, Action 8.8%, War 5.4%, RPG 4.4%

Homefront®: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.

Why similar: Open World 48.1%, Action 12.5%, Survival 9%, Shooter 7.1%, War 7%

Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

Why similar: Open World 49.9%, Third Person 10.1%, Action 9.2%, Third-Person Shooter 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 23.1%, Action 20.2%, Third Person 15.3%, Open World 8.5%, Shooter 7.9%

Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.

Why similar: Open World 42.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Third-Person Shooter 11.9%, Action 9.1%, Third Person 6.1%

Survive the apocalypse behind the wheel. Drive endless Highways, scavenge parts to build and arm your vehicle, and plow through massive zombie hordes. Mount turrets, fortify your ride, and outlast the dead - Solo or Up to 4 Player Multiplayer co-op

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 27.7%, Driving 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Open World 13.3%, Automobile Sim 11.3%

You're being chased... clearly; For what reason? none; Escape into the vast 400km² world, using over 30 customizable vehicles, while blasting guns and music... It's a difficult feat, but maybe you can succeed.

Why similar: Open World 25.8%, Driving 24.6%, Racing 17.7%, Vehicular Combat 12.2%, Action 9.5%

BIOMUTANT® is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.

Why similar: Open World 44.6%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Third Person 7.8%, Action 7%, RPG 3.4%

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Driving 34.1%, Automobile Sim 25.3%, Open World 20.4%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Racing 4.1%

The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.

Why similar: Driving 24.3%, Open World 21%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Automobile Sim 19%, Survival 7.7%

Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.

Why similar: Open World 47%, Third Person 11.8%, Action 9%, Third-Person Shooter 7%, Story Rich 6%

Your world...Your rules!

Why similar: Open World 51.3%, Action 12.3%, Third Person 10.6%, Third-Person Shooter 7%, Sandbox 5.5%

Raise hell in this post-apocalyptic action RPG that mixes rotatable dungeon exploration and top-down racing mechanics. You’re Claire, a mercenary who survives by executing sabotage, delivery and murder contracts in The Dead Zone. Work for hire, thrash rival gangs and race for glory!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 31.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Open World 16.9%, Driving 16.2%, Racing 7.1%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 30%, Survival 17%, Third Person 5%, Exploration 3.3%

Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set.

Why similar: Driving 30.4%, Open World 29.2%, Racing 20.2%, Multiplayer 5.1%, Third Person 4.9%

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Open World 34.8%, Post-apocalyptic 34%, Survival 15.2%, Action 6.7%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.

Why similar: Action 26.4%, Shooter 17.6%, Story Rich 15%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Singleplayer 10.1%

Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.

Why similar: Open World 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 29%, Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Action 2.9%

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Driving 32.4%, Automobile Sim 23.5%, Open World 21.1%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 2.7%

Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.

Why similar: Driving 26.4%, Open World 23.2%, Racing 17.3%, Automobile Sim 15%, Third Person 5.4%

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Open World 38.7%, Survival 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Third Person 4.4%

Fight to liberate a war-torn Himalayan region in this open world FPS. Wield a deadly arsenal, dominate land and sky with gyrocopters and war elephants, and take on enemy territory solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Open World 54.2%, Action 9%, Survival 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Shooter 5.4%

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.1%, Open World 30.7%, Survival 9.9%, Action 7.6%, Adventure 4.4%