Metal Fatigue
BANGER · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.89, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2018.
- Length
- 20h 75h to 100%
- Value
- $0.04/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 485 positive
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
It is 85% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Metal Fatigue is a real-time strategy game taking the genre to new heights - literally. Build and customize your massive Combots to dominate the three battlefield levels simultaneously - from orbit, to the surface, and even underground!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
49 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.89 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Total Annihilation ($4.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Supreme Commander ($12.99, scores 79).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $15.32.
More about Metal Fatigue
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 26-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 296 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
20 hours to finish it, 75 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
What players say
Its a classic, very basic by todays standards. but if you like giant Mechas than you should enjoy this.
2 more reviews
This game is honestly one of the best mech-based RTS games I've ever played, and something I wanna see more of in the RTS and Mech genres. Every movement and attack these combots throw out looks amazing, and there are so many ways to configure your mech. The story, while simple on the surface, is still rather engaging and surprisingly deep. The three levels of each battlefield (Orbit, surface, and underground) make...
One of the cutest RTS games ive played, it knew what it wanted to do and its tried its best to make a big robot game. Rare instance of a Nightdive L however, them not using the right soundtrack for the right faction and all. The new configuration menu in the files is a blessing too.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Metal Fatigue scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/888040/metal-fatigueReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.