MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries (2021)
- Developer
- Piranha Games Inc.
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Action, Simulation
- Rating
- 4.2 of 5, 15,505 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 32 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
Piloting a lumbering war machine through intense, tactical firefights while managing finances and salvage feels like a gritty, methodical power fantasy with moments of tense destruction.
methodicaldestructivetacticalimmersivecustomizablepunishingatmosphericmanagement-heavy
What players say
Players love the mercenary management and mech customization, but the base game is held back by brain-dead friendly and enemy AI, repetitive mission design, and a lack of polish that mods like Yet Another Mech Lab fix. Reviews split on whether the core combat is satisfying or a bland slog, and many warn the game feels incomplete without its DLC.
Trailer
Screenshots
More games like this
- Parkan: Iron Strategy (2018)
- Mecha Knights: Nightmare (2021)
- Mech Game (2020)
- Robots Shooting Simulator (2023)
- MechWarrior 5: Clans (2024)
- War Robots: Frontiers (2025)
- BATTLETECH (2018)
- DAEMON X MACHINA (2020)
More by Piranha Games
- Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza (2002)
- MechWarrior Online™ Legends (2015)
- MechWarrior 5: Clans (2024)
- The Strike (2009)
- Bass Pro Shops: The Strike (2009)
- Cabela's: The Hunt - Championship Edition (2018)
- Bass Pro Shops: The Strike - Championship Edition (2018)
- Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)
This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.