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M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration cover art

M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration

Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2017-04-07

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 31, 1996 (DOS)

Colonize newly-discovered planets, control the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions in real-time or turn-based action.

88%
positive of 212 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration is a hybrid real-time/turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. The MS-DOS version was released in 1994, and a Windows conversion came much later, in 2017. The goal is to colonize newly discovered planets, controlling the resources found there, and defend the colony against other rival factions.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 12,964 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 212 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.39 at Steam (2018-05-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$3.392017-04-082026-07-092017-04-08 — best price $5.992017-06-19 — best price $9.992017-10-09 — best price $6.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-12-12 — best price $5.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-03-05 — best price $6.992018-05-21 — best price $9.992018-08-20 — best price $6.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $3.392019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $4.992019-04-22 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-07-29 — best price $9.992019-11-20 — best price $4.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $6.992020-03-23 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $6.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $6.992022-03-07 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-09-02 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3012026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-22 — 10 pageviews2026-06-25 — 6 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 3 pageviews2026-07-16 — 9 pageviews2026-07-19 — 15 pageviews2026-07-22 — 10 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 6 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-06 — 18 pageviews2026-08-09 — 10 pageviews2026-08-12 — 17 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews2026-08-30 — 9 pageviews2026-09-02 — 6 pageviews2026-09-05 — 7 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

RTSActionSci-fiClassicStrategyTop-DownFuturisticTurn-BasedExplorationTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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