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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!

Metal Fatigue is a strategy, rts and classic game developed by Zono and published by Nightdive Studios and Atari.
Released on July 31st 2018 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 429 reviews of which 406 were positive and 23 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Metal Fatigue into these genres:

Strategy RTS Classic Mechs Robots Sci-fi

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: 1.8GHz Processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: sound card compatible with Direct X 9.0c

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March 2026
Outstandingly fun RTS from the year 2000 that works well thanks to Nightdive Studios' work. Besides the very inventive and fun gameplay, I absolutely love the story, and I'll be focusing on that (in a non-spoiler way). The story is utterly amazing. Besides Homeworld 1, this is the best-conceived story I've seen in an RTS. It's a coming-of-age story in a brutal war. It starts off, in the intro, as very puerile - as is appropriate for the 3 young, dumb hotshots who are the protagonists; but, if you follow the campaign, you'll see the story mature alongside the protagonists. The ending is a stroke of genius. I absolutely love it. I won't say anything specific, except that it reminds me of some of Larry Niven's stories. The gameplay is very fun and inventive. Giant mechs fighting each other, supported by a full array of base buildings and vehicles - which are weaker, but still impactful. The maps have 3 layers - surface, where you can have buildings, mechs, vehicles and aircraft; underground, where only buildings and vehicles go, but mechs are too tall to fit; and orbit, where the build area is very limited, and aircraft reign. Resource generation also varies - underground has plentiful magma lakes you can harvest, the surface has smaller lava pools, but solar panels work, while the orbit has very strong solar power generation. The mechs are divided into torso, legs, right arm, left arm, and crew. The parts have some pretty wild abilities - from rockets and laser swords to large area cloaking devices and jetpacks. The three factions are very different, both in accessible parts and armour types. Capturing and researching enemy parts is a big part of the game; you can do wild things like shear a high-tech arm from an enemy with your laser sword, drop your own arm, grab and affix the sheared arm, and run back to base to research and mass-produce it. There are also superweapons, like the neutron bomb, which kills the crews of heavily-damaged mechs. So, you can have the crew of your own mech get out and capture an enemy mech whole-sale. In short, the gameplay is outrageously inventive, reactive, and fun. The controls are a bit aged in 2025, but not infuriatingly bad. I guess my biggest frustration is that the orbital building grid doesn't quite match the visual layout, leading to slight pixel-hunting. There are some technical issues . While the game works fine out of the box, the movies don't play (I'm playing on Linux, Proton default settings). If you stumble on this issue, you can try to install the old Indeo codecs - or, simpler, manually play the .avi videos, VLC works. They're in the TBD directory: Opening and Finale are self-explanatory: the first and last videos in the story; after each campaign, in order, you have the XClosing, YClosing and ZClosing.avi vids. So: Opening, X, Y, Z, Finale. For making sure the game preserves resolution after Alt-Tabbing, I changed the following nGlide settings: [*] Video backend: Vulkan worked for me, but choose whatever works [*] Screen resolution: actual monitor resolution, like 1920x1080 [*] Aspect ratio: Preserve Original (so you don't get a stretched screen) So, in conclusion , it works pretty well despite some slight technical issues, the gameplay is a bit awkward but more than makes up for it in sheer creativity and fun, and I am in love with the story, especially how it progresses and ends.
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Dec. 2025
Its a classic, very basic by todays standards. but if you like giant Mechas than you should enjoy this.
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Dec. 2025
2025 and this game has mechanics in it I've never seen in any other game. Pre-building your initial base for the mission for example. This gives you more control over the kind of strategy you will be using each map. Not to mention that every mission has combat occuring on 3 different maps simultaneously with certain units and weapons able to traverse each one. Coming up with combinations of combots is just fun. Highly recommend this game to anyone that enjoys RTS, this one is now among my favorites.
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Nov. 2025
I remember playing the demo when it was included in a CD bundled with an issue of PC GAMER in 2001 (I think), then took me a few years to play the full game because I could never find a physical copy down here. It´s a shame a bigger studio didn't make this way back when. The concept is interesting and the three tier maps were an interesting addition to the RTS genre. Bipedal anime looking Mechas on top of it made this game unique, plus the concept of stealing tech from your opponents made an over all cool way of implementing it. If only a bigger studio had been involved and had made a much more polished product it could've potentially spawned a franchise in its own right, in my opinion. I recommend it.
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July 2025
Old but very fun game, been coming back to play this for a lot of years
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Metal Fatigue is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Metal Fatigue is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Metal Fatigue received 406 positive votes out of a total of 429 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Metal Fatigue was developed by Zono and published by Nightdive Studios and Atari.

Metal Fatigue is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Metal Fatigue is not playable on MacOS.

Metal Fatigue is not playable on Linux.

Metal Fatigue offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Metal Fatigue offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Metal Fatigue does not currently offer any DLC.

Metal Fatigue does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Metal Fatigue supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Metal Fatigue is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Metal Fatigue
4.99€ Buy Now
Rating
8.7
406
23
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
3
Developer
Zono
Publisher
Nightdive Studios, Atari
Release 31 Jul 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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