MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries overview

Overview

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries comes from Piranha Games Inc. and is published by Piranha Games Inc.. It arrived on Steam on May 26, 2021, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 2,149 players at 8 October 2026 - 14:58:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 3,495. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 85% positive across 16,001 reviews.

Language and system requirements

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is available in 6 languages including:

4 regional rating boards including csrr, dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries has sold up to 481,020 units and has 13,409 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $9,674,507. On Twitch, 20 streamers are live with around 288 total watchers.

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries overview details

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

BE YOUR OWN WEAPON OF WAR Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a hell of a time to be alive. Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems spanning a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere. The golden age of cooperation and advancement is now a distant memory, and humanity has once again splintered into disparate factions all vying for supremacy. In the midst of these Succession Wars, power hungry Mercenaries like yourself are in a privileged position to capitalize big time. It’s dangerous work but that’s why you’re here, right? If you’ve got an itch to blast, wreck, stomp and go all out ballistic, step inside and become your own weapon of war! STORY As the inheritor of a once-prominent Mercenary company, reborn in the flames of its near destruction at the hands of conspiring factions, your quest for glory and revenge will stretch light-years as you chase threads of interstellar intrigue along your journey to becoming an elite MechWarrior and mercenary commander. THE INNER SPHERE Home to thousands of star systems and an array of stunning biomes, the Inner Sphere is alive with activity, purpose, consequence, and variety. Systems will be captured and reclaimed, major events will unfold, and new technologies will come to light. The rigors of war will be seen with each passing week as your relationships with the various factions fluctuate according to the relentless Succession Wars and your choices as the leader of a Mercenary outfit. GAMEPLAY The battlefields of the future are dominated by BattleMechs, hulking machines of war capable of leveling entire cities. As a Battl…

SteamPulse editorial summary

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is listed as a game with $7.49 (75% off from $29.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 2,149 players at 8 October 2026 - 14:58:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 3,495, and 85% positive reviews.

Overview tags

MechsSimulationFPSActionCo-opShooterVehicular CombatFirst-PersonModdableDestructionSingleplayer3DOnline Co-OpCombatFuturistic

Content descriptors

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries contains vehicular combat violence and building destruction.

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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