Maximum Override
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 312 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Geforce 9600 GS, Radeon HD4000, Shader Model 3.0, 512 MB, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. On the same math People Playground ($9.99, scores 96) and Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator ($14.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Maximum Override
Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Maximum Override, developed and published by Alientrap, is a physics-driven sandbox destruction game that thrives on a simple but entertaining concept: giving players the ability to possess and control almost any machine in a city and unleash chaos without restriction. Rather than presenting a structured narrative or progression-heavy experience, the game leans fully into its identity as a playground of destruction...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Maximum Override scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/389220/maximum-overrideReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.