Best Vehicular Combat Games on Steam
Games where vehicles fight with weapons, ramming, armor, and speed.
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1Mad Max - Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
Sep 1, 2015
In this game, you can…
- eat a corpse for health when you search a body and Max just shoves his hand into the remains.
- race into a massive sandstorm where lightning and debris swallow the wasteland and you have to reach shelter before it overwhelms you.
- slam your car into enemy vehicles at 90 mph, then chain nitro, harpoons, rams, and explosives to peel a convoy apart.
- chase a convoy across half the map, wreck it piece by piece, then spot something new on the horizon and get pulled into another fight.
- use a harpoon to rip apart cars mid-chase by yanking enemies off the road and tearing key parts loose.
- build your car from a rusty wreck into a custom combat machine by swapping engine, armor, spikes, suspension, and body style.
- clear a whole region by destroying camps, scarecrows, snipers, minefields, and patrols until the threat level hits zero and enemies spawn less.
- walk into a roadside standoff, then set a gas can on fire and drop it on the guy who challenged you to a fistfight.
2ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ - A new action game based on the concept of the ARMORED CORE series that uses the knowledge gained from FromSoftware's recent action game development.
Aug 24, 2023
In this game, you can…
- sell parts back for full price, farm credits by replaying missions, and keep iterating on bizarre builds without getting punished.
- commit to a melee build, land a big charged hit after a stagger, and delete most of a boss's health bar in one window.
- run the campaign through branching routes where later playthroughs unlock new missions and multiple endings.
- restart a mission, swap your entire mech build, and go back in with a completely different plan within minutes.
- fill an enemy's stagger bar, watch them lock up, and then dump a full damage burst into the opening you created.
- boost in three dimensions, drift through firefights, and stay airborne while swapping between guns, rockets, and blades.
- save dozens of loadouts and instantly switch between them when a boss or objective demands a different setup.
3Besiege - Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Feb 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack millions of bombs under a rocket, set them off, and get launched kilometers into the air as burning debris rains down.
- build a self-stabilizing VTOL airship with 12 missiles, turrets, a cargo bay with doors, a cockpit view, and jet boost.
- build a catapult to launch a boulder, then watch the boulder launch the catapult and still win.
- build a spiked go-cart, then keep escalating into catapults, flying machines, and other siege contraptions.
- plant a bladed windmill on a post and let incoming birds fly into it.
- use hinge parts as tank tracks and roll a handmade tank across the battlefield.
- create a walking robot with cannon arms, a flamethrower mouth, and a helicopter head that still moves and fights.
- turn on god powers to ignite anything, drag machines around, switch to zero gravity, and make builds invincible for testing.
4Trailmakers - Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Sep 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- go to space in your own build, fly through a starfield, and test it against space pirates.
- bolt logic blocks into your builds until your machines behave like programmable contraptions.
- drop into multiplayer, spawn a tank in the middle of your friend's build session, and open fire on their latest creation.
- turn a little car into a flying machine by slapping on wings and a few thrusters.
- start with a bare-minimum buggy, then snowball through rafts, bigger tires, stronger engines, hoists, and pontoons as you recover parts.
- hunt salvage tucked into hard-to-reach spots, then haul it back with whatever vehicle you can invent to reach it.
- fly a custom hover ship into a volcano, grab a critical salvage piece, and get back out in one piece.
- build a submarine and dive into deep trenches to reach loot and routes that other vehicles can't touch.
- spawn a giant vehicle with hundreds of parts and push the physics until the game starts to struggle.
5TerraTech - TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Aug 10, 2018
In this game, you can…
- get invaded by enemy contraptions built from other players' designs, like surprise boss fights made of community creations.
- create turrets that split off into more turrets, then add follower machines so your own army defends and fights for you.
- move huge piles of resources through conveyors in a base, then fire the surplus out of cannons into orbit.
- tear apart defeated vehicles and bolt their surviving parts onto your own rig mid-run.
- rebuild your vehicle on the fly in the world, and have the new layout work immediately.
- build a flying vehicle you designed yourself, then use it to fly around an entire planet collecting loot.
- carry an entire refining and smelting setup on your back as a traveling factory.
- strap multiple cruise or seeker missiles onto a vehicle and one-shot enemies into scrap with blast waves.
6VTOL VR - VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.
Aug 3, 2017
In this game, you can…
- flip cockpit switches with your own hands, press every button, and yank the ejection handle when it all goes wrong.
- launch off an aircraft carrier, come back for an arrested landing, then taxi and set up to catapult again until you nail it.
- take off vertically, hover, and set down on rooftops before switching back into normal jet flight.
- run a full jet start-up by hand—battery, APU, engines, screens, visor—then launch off the runway under your own control.
- hear a missile-launch alarm, dump chaff and flares, and pull hard to dodge a SAM before it reaches you.
- fight a dogfight by physically turning your head to find targets, cue weapons with your look, and keep flying while guns and missiles chase you.
- line up for aerial refueling and stay rock-steady on the tanker's hose long enough to actually take fuel.
- fly a two-seat aircraft with a friend, splitting roles in the same cockpit while you run missions together.
7Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Race across land, sea, air, space, and time in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! Warp through Travel Rings into new dimensions where something new awaits around every twist and turn.
Sep 25, 2025
In this game, you can…
- warp mid-race into a totally different world on lap 2, play by its rules, then snap back for a changed final lap.
- take first place early so you get to pick which world everyone gets warped into on lap 2.
- race online in 12- or even 20-player lobbies where the lead can flip constantly right up to the finish.
- chain drifts and boosts through corners until you're carrying ridiculous speed for long stretches.
- build a loadout around air tricks, launching off jumps to earn rings and keep your boost going.
- tune parts and gadgets to make your vehicle behave completely differently, from item defense to endgame burst speed.
- slam into opponents, steal their rings, and drift close to spin them out while the item storm is hitting everyone.
- enter team rule sets where you boost off allies, fight over rings, and knock opponents out instead of just racing.
8Tokyo Xtreme Racer - The title of “fastest” never fades. Race through the sealed future Tokyo night highways in your customized car. Defeat rivals in “SP Battle,” where drivers clash by draining Spirit Points. A unique racing game where only the rules for victory matter.
Sep 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- flash your high beams at a car in free roam to start an instant head-to-head battle.
- win battles by draining an opponent's Spirit Points instead of racing to a finish line.
- hit 580–600 km/h in a fully tuned car and turn normal highway curves into real corner fights at speed.
- cruise the night expressway, pull into parking areas, and trigger rival conversations that reveal their backstories.
- get jumped in a duel that suddenly becomes a three-car fight when another driver piles in mid-battle.
- unlock secret rivals only by meeting weird hidden requirements like a specific plate region and body kit parts.
- run a loop where you provoke a rival, win, cash out, upgrade your car, and immediately go hunting again.
- unlock persistent perks that change battles, like draining enemy Spirit faster or slowing your own Spirit loss.
9Avorion - A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Mar 9, 2020
In this game, you can…
- watch enemy ships break apart exactly where you hit them, then scoop the flying wreckage up as loot.
- set up autonomous mining ships that jump around, refine ore, and keep collecting resources while you're away.
- sell weapons to both sides of a faction war, then loot the battlefield when they're done fighting.
- shape your first real ship block by block from a tiny mining cube.
- command fleet battles where dozens of your ships warp in while AI captains handle mining, escorting, and fighting.
- claim a huge asteroid, turn it into a mine, and start generating serious income from it.
- build factories, shipyards, and supply chains that generate money in the background across multiple sectors.
- lose a ship, then rebuild the exact design instantly from a saved blueprint and get back in the fight.
10Sprocket - Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Aug 26, 2021
In this game, you can…
- design a tank so overarmored that an enemy destroys itself without you firing.
- build a trench-crossing tank with an almost 8-meter hull and a huge front sprocket to crawl over cratered WW1 trenches.
- shape hulls and turrets into almost any form, then bolt on multiple turrets until it stops looking like a tank.
- set up one transmission per track so one side drives forward while the other reverses to spin in place.
- angle armor plates and watch the effective thickness change against incoming shells in the analysis.
- recreate real tanks with matching parts and end up within about 5–10% of their real-world stats.
- place fuel tanks as external components so a hit can get absorbed there, then potentially ignite and cascade into internal damage.
- spawn your custom builds into battles to immediately test mobility, armor, and weird mechanical ideas against other creations.
