Games Like Mad Max

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 33.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Open World 19.6%, Automobile Sim 12.1%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its wasteland setting, convoy chases, car-based traversal, and chaotic combat make it one of the closest overall tonal and mechanical matches.

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%, Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, Survival 12.5%, Third Person 5.4%, Third-Person Shooter 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: While it swaps a muscle car for a bike, it nails the same lonely open-world survival feel, vehicle maintenance loop, and gritty scavenger atmosphere.

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 31.9%, Automobile Sim 19.3%, Open World 18.7%, Driving 9.6%, Racing 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a cult-classic post-apocalyptic vehicle-combat game built around roaming hostile roads, upgrading your rig, and surviving the wasteland.

SAND LAND is an action RPG where you become the main character as Beelzebub, a Fiend Prince. Lead your company of heroic misfits and explore the legendary world of SAND LAND created by Akira Toriyama.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 52.5% ★, Open World 26.4%, Third-Person Shooter 5.6%, Action 5.5%, Exploration 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a very similar desert post-apocalyptic vibe with third-person action, open-area exploration, and heavily emphasized vehicle use and upgrades.

Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player 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 30.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Driving 13%, Open World 11.3%, Automobile Sim 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its Mad Max-inspired desert style, vehicular warfare, and scrapyard attitude make it an easy fit if the car-combat side is what you want most.

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 48.5%, Open World 23.7%, Action 6.7%, Racing 6.5%, Shooter 4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same dusty end-of-the-world aesthetic with driving, combat, and scavenging across a hostile wasteland.

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 47.2%, Third-Person Shooter 9.9%, Third Person 8.5%, Action 8.1%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same third-person open-world action energy and vehicular chaos, just with a more explosive and less survival-driven tone.

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 33.9%, Open World 31%, Survival 4.7%, Exploration 4.5%, Third Person 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you mainly want to wander a ruined world, scavenge constantly, and fight through a hostile post-apocalyptic sandbox, it scratches that itch well.

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 54.1%, Third Person 14.8%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 4.5%, Story Rich 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-to-hand combat is one of the clearest cousins to Mad Max, and the Batmobile adds a strong vehicle-combat layer to the open world.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.9%, Open World 33.9%, Survival 4.8%, RPG 3.9%, Exploration 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its desert wasteland atmosphere, faction-filled frontier, and freedom to roam make it a strong fit for Mad Max fans who want more worldbuilding and roleplay.

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 40.1%, Post-apocalyptic 33.3%, Action 6.4%, Multiplayer 5%, Survival 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another open-world post-collapse action game focused on outpost fights, scavenging, and surviving in a hostile rebuilt wasteland.

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%, Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Survival 14.7%, Exploration 5.4%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates the feeling of caring for a vehicle as your lifeline in a dangerous world, even though its structure is more survival-focused than action-heavy.

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 48.9%, Third-Person Shooter 15%, Third Person 10%, Action 7.4%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh frontier setting, open-world structure, vehicle use, and rough improvised combat give it a similar rugged sandbox feel.

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 39.1%, Open World 26%, Survival 10%, Action 4.7%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a bleak road-trip-through-the-apocalypse mood with scavenging, survival pressure, and stretches of open-ended exploration.

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 43.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Third Person 11%, Sandbox 5.4%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its entire appeal is building brutal scrap-metal war machines and taking them into post-apocalyptic vehicular combat.

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%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Third Person 7.8%, Action 6.9%, RPG 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another third-person open-world action game set in a ruined world, with scrap-built gear, exploration, and a scrappy improvised feel.

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 56.1% ★, Automobile Sim 18.7%, Racing 12.4%, Driving 4%, Action 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers arcade-style vehicular combat with a scrappy, armed-to-the-teeth road-war aesthetic that overlaps with Mad Max's convoy chaos.

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 34.3%, Post-apocalyptic 34.2%, Survival 15.4%, Action 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same harsh survival momentum and scavenging loop in an open world, even if the focus shifts from cars to parkour and zombies.

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

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 42.8% ★, Racing 16.7%, Automobile Sim 12%, Driving 11.9%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: If the vehicular violence is your favorite part of Mad Max, this leans hard into brutal car combat and destructive mayhem.

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

Why similar: Driving 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Open World 18.1%, Automobile Sim 13.6%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the isolation, car dependence, and endless desolate-road atmosphere that make Mad Max's quieter stretches so effective.

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 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 20.5%, Third Person 5.2%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world scavenging, survival pressure, and constant search for fuel, parts, and safety feel adjacent to Mad Max's resource-starved world.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 17.1%, Automobile Sim 15.3%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lower-key pick, but its focus on driving through an empty post-apocalyptic landscape taps into Mad Max's lonely road-warrior vibe.

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 20.4%, Third-Person Shooter 11.9%, Action 9%, Third Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though much more colorful and comedic, it shares the open-world traversal freedom and energetic post-apocalyptic combat sandbox appeal.

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 41.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.5%, Third Person 6.5%, RPG 5.2%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its rough-edged post-apocalyptic world, faction conflicts, and open-world exploration give it some of the same hostile-survival-world appeal.

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 69.8% ★, Racing 14.5%, Third Person 5.8%, Action 5.3%, Multiplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its vehicle-based melee combat and outlaw-road-warrior feel echo the rough convoy skirmishes that make Mad Max memorable.

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.

Why similar: Open World 55.1%, Action 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%, RPG 8.3%, Shooter 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its bandit-filled wasteland zones, vehicle sections, and scavenger-shooter energy line up well with Mad Max's chaotic desert tone.

Rev up your engines and venture into the unknown with Drive Beyond Horizons! Conquer dynamic landscapes, customize your ride, and unearth hidden treasures. Get ready for heart-pounding challenges and endless excitement. Your adventure starts now !

Why similar: Driving 22.1%, Automobile Sim 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 7.4%

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 38.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Driving 18.6%, Open World 15.2%, Racing 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a simpler but satisfying take on surviving an apocalypse from behind the wheel, with constant vehicular combat against overwhelming threats.

In this sequel to the vintage Open World RPG ELEX, Jax must once again unite the free people of the Science-Fantasy world of Magalan against a new threat - the Skyands, who want to change the face of the planet forever.

Why similar: Open World 34.2%, Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Third Person 10.3%, Action 6%, Exploration 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like the first game, it focuses on roaming a dangerous ruined world, scraping together power, and fighting through a harsh sci-fi wasteland.

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 31.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Survival 18.7%, Third Person 5.7%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This version also emphasizes surviving in a collapsing world by scavenging, managing threats, and keeping mobility and supplies under control.

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 35.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Driving 14.6%, Open World 14.1%, 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 57.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Action 4.5%, Exploration 3.1%, RPG 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Even with its tactical structure, its post-apocalyptic vehicle-combat focus and armored-road-survival theme make it a worthwhile thematic match.

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 34.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Third-Person Shooter 9.8%, Survival 8.5%, Third Person 5.1%

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 47.7%, Action 12.3%, Survival 9%, War 7.2%, Shooter 7.1%

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%, Third Person 14.3%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 4.7%, RPG 3.7%

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 56.4%, Third Person 10.4%, Action 8.6%, War 5.5%, RPG 4.5%

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 49.5%, Third Person 10.1%, Action 9%, Third-Person Shooter 7.9%, Sandbox 6.8%

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 46.5%, Third Person 11.8%, Action 8.9%, Third-Person Shooter 7.1%, Story Rich 6%

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%, Action 19.8%, Third Person 15.4%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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

Why similar: Action 25.8%, Shooter 17.6%, Story Rich 14.9%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Singleplayer 10.3%

Your world...Your rules!

Why similar: Open World 51%, Action 12.1%, Third Person 10.6%, Third-Person Shooter 7.1%, Sandbox 5.8%

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 38.2%, Survival 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Third Person 4.4%

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 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Third Person 7.7%, Story Rich 5.7%, Atmospheric 5%

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 34.3%, Automobile Sim 25.3%, Open World 20.1%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Racing 4%

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 20.8%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 2.8%

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 25.6%, Driving 24.8%, Racing 17.5%, Vehicular Combat 12.3% ★, Action 9.3%

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 21.2%, Driving 18.9%, Open World 17.4%, Automobile Sim 11.2%, Survival 7.7%

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 26.3%, Open World 22.9%, Racing 17.2%, Automobile Sim 15.2%, Third Person 5.4%

The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Why similar: Open World 53.2%, Survival 22.7%, Action 7.5%, Exploration 4.2%, Adventure 4.1%

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 28.7%, Driving 28.2%, Racing 25.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Action 4.7%

Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 39.3% ★, Open World 23.1%, Racing 12.1%, Third Person 7.9%, Sandbox 5.6%

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, Open World 17%, Survival 12.2%, Third-Person Shooter 12%, Third Person 7.8%

A high-octane road trip through a besieged world during a demon-infested zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, form a caravan, call in various support drops or air strikes, loot random structures for supplies or craft them yourself, modify common vehicles into post-apocalyptic machines of war.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 39% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Driving 20.2%, Third-Person Shooter 6.9%, Third Person 6.1%

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 24.4%, Open World 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Automobile Sim 18.8%, Survival 7.8%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Open World 21.3%, Driving 12%, Survival 11.1%, Third-Person Shooter 5.2%

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 34.3%, Open World 32.8%, Survival 10.4%, Action 8.2%, Adventure 4.7%

The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 22.4% ★, Driving 21.4%, Open World 20.1%, Racing 12.5%, Automobile Sim 10.8%