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Mad Max
Developer Avalanche Studios
Mad Max is a 2015 action-adventure video game based on the Mad Max franchise developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game follows Max Rockatansky as he progresses through the wasteland building a vehicle, the Magnum Opus, to battle against a gang of hostile raiders led by Scabrous Scrotus and reach the storied "Plains of Silence", where he hopes to find peace. Mad… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
554 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
90
LovedLoved
355 positive · 41 negative
95% range 86–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 355 | 41 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 24 | 3 | 110 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
38,204 of 41,627 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
93% recommend · 241 yes, 18 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 259 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (83,845 of 90,777 positive).
Some reviewers note repetitive open-world tasks and a disappointing ending. [1][2]
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- [1]
An ending so bad i have to write a review about it 10 years later just to make myself feel better. I am so glad i decided to push towards the end after act 3 and stop doing most side content because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ does the last 2 acts of this game completely ruin anything it couldve been. The combat is fine for the most part its the batman arkham game mash combos parry though i felt like the parry system was just eating …
- [3]
Mad Max is one of the most underrated games ever made, and I genuinely don’t understand how more people aren’t talking about how incredible it is. Every time I jump into the wasteland, I’m blown away by how immersive and atmospheric the world feels. The car combat is some of the best I’ve ever experienced (fast, brutal, and insanely satisfying) and the Magnum Opus truly feels like my machine, shaped by every …
- [4]
An absolute masterpiece that flew under the radar for too long. The vehicular combat is top-tier, the hand-to-hand combat is bone-crunchingly satisfying, and the atmosphere is incredible. If you are going for 100% achievements, buckle up—it is a massive, rewarding journey. Highly recommend! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Beautiful (The wasteland storms and explosions look incredible) ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ …
- [10]
I really hated the first 30 minutes of this game. It felt slow, bland, and I genuinely thought I had wasted my money. Then I got my own rig. And suddenly I understood everything. Mad Max basically became WB's version of Deus Ex for me. Remove the cyberpunk, replace it with a dying wasteland, add gasoline, spikes, V8 engines and people screaming while hanging off your car. After that opening, I loved pretty much …
- [5]
Mad Max has the best vehicular combat in any open world game I have played thus far. It is chaotic, action fueled and filled to the brim with explosions and charred carcasses strewn across the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The plot is not exactly the game's strong point, but it does teach us that life is often painful and disappointing and that fairy tale endings are not as common as one would like. I highly recommend …
Summarised from 34 of the 392 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Mad Max sits at 90% positive across 396 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Mad Max received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. George Miller said in a 2024 interview that the game "wasn't as good as" how he wanted it to be. Retrospectively, the game was considered to be "underrated". Its story received a mixed response. Brandin Tyrrel of IGN found the story surprising and genuine, despite most of the action occurring later in the game. Tyrrel wrote that the characters have different personalities and distinct qualities, and considered them the "true star" of the game. According to Chris Carter of Destructoid, the game's story engages the player. Leon Hurley of GamesRadar found the overall story weak and "barely…
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Reactions
60 of 554 · most liked firsttired: letting SCOTUS continue to rule as the highest court in the land wired: handing over complete control of our judicial system to Scrotus, the bad guy from that Mad Max video game
neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out to 10 years ago today when I woke up to drive to a Best Buy in Metairie right as it opened so that I could buy Metal Gear Solid V, its hardcover strategy guide, and Mad Max: Fury Road on steelbook before class started. Hard to believe it’s been a decade. Incredible game despite it all.
positive · AI labelView post →(the Great Games Recommendation Thread, part 2): 101) Mad Max. An absolute 7/10 game, a prequel to Fury World that nobody's going to remember as a classic but is plenty of fun, mixing driving combat with third-person action when you raid bases and such, and some neat weird NPCs.
neutral · AI labelView post →Northernlion streaming Uma is Black Panther for- oh, hold on. "Sam, you've been playing that horse game for quite some time. Why not go for a walk, take a shower, watch a movie even? Oooh, we should watch Mad Max: Fury Road"
neutral · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mad Max is the absolute best avatar of the insanity that is a World Series Game 7, very important to put a total lunatic on the mound
neutral · AI labelView post →Humanity needs my superior genes. That is why I have named my 15 children after every background character in Mad Max. Vomitorium Invictus has completed his game of puzzles with dear little Gas King
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly kinda disappointed the post-apocalyptic Paradox game is going to be a Fallout/Mad Max type thing and not a Twilight 2000 type thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max, “let’s go” his way to stay in the game and delivers. Electric outing. Hell yeah.
neutral · AI labelView post →MGSV and the Mad Max game came out 10 years ago *today* and look exactly the same as most AAA games from this year
neutral · AI labelView post →It feels horrifying and nauseating to see the videos of Russian soldiers entering (what is left) of Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the fog like some macabre mash of Mad Max and White Walkers from Game of Thrones and then brain remembers it’s not a movie these white walkers are very real and winter is
neutral · AI labelView post →Back with some virtual photography posting 📷 Here are some shots from my replay of Mad Max last year, which I still say is a really underrated game
positive · AI labelView post →Post a fav game that got a 75 or less on Metacritic. Mad Max. Understandable why, given it is creaking under much of the open world game design of the era and the on-foot stuff is serviceable. But the car combat and customisation is still great stuff, and you can get into a satisfying loop with it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My claymation game is inspired by: - Red Dead Redemption - Mad Max - Gears of War A lone gunslinger and his loyal mutt trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic West. Kickstarter launches in 3 days! #screenshotsaturday #PitchYaGame #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max slowly turned into one of those games where I’d get into the car to drive somewhere and end up completely forgetting where I was going. The desert has this strange rhythm where nothing happens for a while and then suddenly you're chasing a convoy across half the map, engines screaming, scrap flying everywhere and half the road turning into wrecks. I kept telling myself I’d head back to the objective after the fight, but every time something new appeared on the horizon the plan changed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mad Max is one of the most underrated games ever made, and I genuinely don’t understand how more people aren’t talking about how incredible it is. Every time I jump into the wasteland, I’m blown away by how immersive and atmospheric the world feels. The car combat is some of the best I’ve ever experienced (fast, brutal, and insanely satisfying) and the Magnum Opus truly feels like my machine, shaped by every upgrade. The world design is stunning in its own harsh, desolate beauty. From my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Objectively, it’s hilarious to make game—treading the waters of Boy and His Dog, Mad Max, etc— where capitalism drove the old world to ruin and haunts the post-apocalypse… and turn around and say, “but it’s not a bad thing, tho!“
neutral · AI labelView post →Australia Game Jam where you need to make a game about or set in Australia but you’re not allowed to feature: -Crocodile Dundee figures -Mad Max wastelands -Poisonous creatures
neutral · AI labelView post →Honest review: Just a guy in love with his car, but has a bit of a temper problem. I'd give this game a 6/10. Story is actually not bad, it follows one decently enough. There could've been some improvements but all in all I liked it. If you like collecting cars, you'll enjoy this. Unfortunately you can only upgrade one of them, but there is many ways to do so. Physics of driving is entertaining. If you like Easter Egg hunting, you'll like this open world. There is plenty of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd never let AI near any of my projects, anything I don't do myself I commission. I'm currently making CRUST, a cozy Mad Max and Wind Waker inspired game about finding yourself! 📸 I also make games for the PS Vita about angry robots/cyborgs with guns! 🔫 balderdragonslayer.itch.io
neutral · AI labelView post →I can’t wait for Hermit Me to be able to tell the Mad Max world children what baseball was and about how the last baseball game ever went on for three entire years
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a GREAT action game from one of my favorite publishers, @restorationgames.bsky.social. Great Mad Max feel!
positive · AI labelView post →PSA: Avalanche's superb and severely underrated Mad Max video game currently has a 90% discount on Steam. It's got deliciously weighty melee combat, deeply compelling car customisation, and a bleakly beautiful post-apocalyptic open world worthy of the movies. Witness it.
positive · AI labelView post →My nearly annual reminder that MAD MAX is such an enjoyable game and you really ought to give it a try.
positive · AI labelView post →"He says he's not gonna be calm. So expect Max to be Mad Max" - Springer on Game 4 Scherzer, to Hazel
neutral · AI labelView post →What a lovely day to learn about what happened to the Mad Max video game! youtu.be/qB6719zxUjk
neutral · AI labelView post →MAX. SCHERZER. Stays in and makes it 4 strikeouts in five innings and 46 strikes on 74 pitches in Game 4. Mad Max showing out in the postseason at 41 years old. Blue Jays looking good up 5-1.
neutral · AI labelView post →George Miller wants Hideo Kojima to make a Mad Max game YES PLEASE.
neutral · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☑…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the one hand, the MAD MAX game is a bit grindy, on the other hand charging around a bandit camp in your car shooting harpoons into their defense towers and tearing them down ain't got old yet.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watched "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" last night, and found it enjoyable. Plus, now the urge to MC a game of Apocalypse World is damn near overwhelming. (Not a place for you to tell me you didn't like it.)
neutral · AI labelView post →At Hollywood Theatre for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and it’s never gonna wear off, the glee of seeing our games on da big screen 🙂
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse AU drawing of Patches and Kit from 2022, inspired when I was getting into the tabletop game Gaslands and watching a lot of Mad Max movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max (Steam) is $2.59 on Gamesplanet buff.ly/qMrYac0 $4.99 XBL Game Pass discount buff.ly/A1rEpD1 $4.99 US PSN buff.ly/d4z1lvT Deck verified
neutral · AI labelView post →Hear me out, I'm making a claymation western game using #godot inspired by RDR2 and Mad Max. New around here but will post updates on a regular basis. #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max has always had a very questionable timeline, and its good they're leaning into it. The video game was (waveyhandssomewhere) canon, and it was such a good game (for being a driving based open world deal)
positive · AI labelView post →🔥 **Mad Max – A Brutal Journey Through the Wasteland** Mad Max is an incredible open-world action game that delivers a raw, intense post-apocalyptic experience. Its brutal vehicle combat, explosive action, and unforgiving wasteland create an atmosphere that keeps you immersed from beginning to end. Customizing the Magnum Opus, upgrading your weapons, fighting dangerous enemies, and exploring the vast desert are some of the game's biggest highlights. The hand-to-hand combat is satisfying, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mad Max (2015) in 2026, and I can honestly say it's still an old but gold game. The graphics, action, and gameplay are amazing, especially considering its age. Some of the cutscenes don't feel as smooth by today's standards, but that's completely understandable for a game released in 2015. The game is a bit grindy, and it might feel repetitive at the beginning. However, if you stick with it and keep progressing, the overall experience becomes much more enjoyable and rewarding. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They don't make them like this anymore. Memorable characters, good voice acting, and a decent story make for one of the last great open world triple A titles uncorrupted by modern game development. Sure, the game suffers somewhat from the usual open world repetitive tasks. But, if you can look past that, it's a very immersive world which captures what Mad Max is all about. I regret taking so long to finally play the game, and even more disappointed to discover there were rumours about…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An absolute masterpiece that flew under the radar for too long. The vehicular combat is top-tier, the hand-to-hand combat is bone-crunchingly satisfying, and the atmosphere is incredible. If you are going for 100% achievements, buckle up—it is a massive, rewarding journey. Highly recommend! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Beautiful (The wasteland storms and explosions look incredible) ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Awful ☐ Paint.exe ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good (Crunchy Arkham-style fighting +…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Being a trans dyke, a regional cryptid, a turn of the century circus strongman, Chumbucket from the 2015 Mad Max video game, and that giant dork is pretty cool
neutral · AI labelView post →Immediately the 2015 Mad Max game comes to mind
neutral · AI labelView post →Overall: 8.5/10 Story: I'm personally a fan of Mad Max as an IP, so I'll be the first to say I'm slightly bias, but I think the narrative is alright at its core since the story is basically just about a dude trying to get his car back and kill the people who stole it. That's obviously an oversimplification, but it gets the general premise across. Unfortunately though, that simplification also glosses over a lot of the narrative's biggest shortcomings. Ignoring my gripes with certain story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whoa! Exceptional Car Combat. On foot raids featuring exceptional hand to hand combat accented by melee weapons and shotgun. Visciously brutal kill animations. Seriously good explosions. Limited RPG progression though it's there and meaningful. Additional progression through acquiring parts for your ride which complements multiple vehicle builds. Immersive active environment with strong weather presentation. Game has a lot of open world filler: Avoid scavenger sites without meaningful…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like the last game they made before microtransaction stores, wood collection, resource type and icon overload in open world games. As Ghost of Tsushima collated all open world mechanics for the 20s, Mad Max did it for the state of gamemaking in 2013. You have bright yellow paint, ubitowers, camp scouting, camp clearing as well as Batman/Shadows of Mordor combat (which also explains why this sits at 70 in open critic, it just had the same stuff all the games had). But the strong points…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game can be easily the example of "Underrated games" I played it on 2026 for the first time and enjoyed much more than I expected. You should give a try!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gonna put all my friends in this game and have everone battle to the death in a Mad Max cage arena
neutral · AI labelView post →I really hated the first 30 minutes of this game. It felt slow, bland, and I genuinely thought I had wasted my money. Then I got my own rig. And suddenly I understood everything. Mad Max basically became WB's version of Deus Ex for me. Remove the cyberpunk, replace it with a dying wasteland, add gasoline, spikes, V8 engines and people screaming while hanging off your car. After that opening, I loved pretty much every second. The main missions were fun, the side activities somehow became…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How the hell did this game release in 2015? How is no one talking about this masterpiece? How can anyone hate such a great game? You want good graphics? Check ✅ Insane gameplay? Check ✅ Hand and vehicle combat? Check ✅ A good story and a great open world? Check ✅ I couldn’t find a single issue it's an absolutely underrated masterpiece.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mad Max has the best vehicular combat in any open world game I have played thus far. It is chaotic, action fueled and filled to the brim with explosions and charred carcasses strewn across the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The plot is not exactly the game's strong point, but it does teach us that life is often painful and disappointing and that fairy tale endings are not as common as one would like. I highly recommend the experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →should I replay the Mad Max avalanche game? I remember it was consistently good but just never quite great
neutral · AI labelView post →Hideo Kojima's Physint espionage game casts Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga's Charlee Fraser, Train to Busan's Don Lee, and Godzilla Minus One's Minami Hamabe!
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking dreamily about the Mad Max video game dust storms and how you could get hit in the head with straw sheet metal I loved that game lol
positive · AI labelView post →The very cool MAD MAX game is super cheap on the EU/UK PS Store. I'm utterly obsessed with this game.
positive · AI labelView post →THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY is my adult space fantasy full of toxic sapphics and other queers. Won't go into a pitch here, but these moodboards make me SO HAPPY. MAD MAX x BORDERLANDS (video game) x THE LOCKED TOMB x THE STARS ARE LEGION #DVParty #SFF #LGBTQ
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished this converted Flesh Eater Court model for use as a "Salvage Ghoul" in Kosmika! He reminds me of Chumbucket from the Mad Max game. #Miniatures #kosmika #blacksitestudios #nerdlings #warhammer #flesheatercourts
neutral · AI labelView post →WTF, this game is legit slept upon. So many details & is really well made
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will die mad that the Mad Max game couldn't use the nemesis system. Would have been *perfect*
positive · AI labelView post →Mad Max on PS4 was an amazing game, and not just because of the 10 second dream sequence with Dinki Di!
positive · AI labelView post →Criminally underrated. This game is a blast. Vehicle gameplay is extremely solid. Driving around feels great and vehicle combat is fun. The hand to hand "free flow" fighting is simple but extremely satisfying. The open world gameplay loop of finding scrap to constantly upgrade your vehicle is addicting even though most of the activities become pretty repetitive. The game is over ten years old and the visuals still hold up. The skyboxes might be top five best of all time. And this game still has…
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