Mech games are too often viewed as clunky or aimed at niche sci-fi communities of players, but there’s plenty of variety in the genre. Beyond the big names you’ve heard of, such as Titanfall or Armored Core, an entire genre awaits new pilots, and we’ve collected the very best Mech games with this ranked list.
The term “mecha” was first used in Japanese after shortening the English loanwords “mechanism” (mekanizumu) and “mechanical” (mekanikaru). The earliest history of mechs sends us back to 1868 and 1880, when Edward S. Ellis and Jules Verne introduced steam-powered and piloted mechanical animals in their novels. After a few similar concepts popped up in Japanese works from the 1930s, the first giant robot with humanoid features piloted by a man appeared in the manga Atomic Power Android (1948).
