Story
A short time ago in a land nearby...
An Evil Chef has taken all cookbooks captive, and forced the people to eat junk food.
The only person who can save them now is Max Overeater.
Eat the good food while avoiding the bad food.
Your hunger will drain your health every two seconds.
Find the Antacid on the level to prevent low health sickness.
Ring the dinner bell for extra time.
Locate and free all of the captive cookbooks.
And eat as many mints as possible for bonus points.
Defeat the Evil Chef in the final showdown and save the world from junk food.
About
Max Overeater is a Third-Person Side-Scroller Action game, in a similar style to Super Mario or Rayman, but with cartoon 3D graphics.
The player travels across each level, eating the healthy foods and avoiding the unhealthy foods, and collecting powerups and bonus points.
Max Overeater has many fun game features, including five different large level design styles to explore.
Each set of specially designed levels includes two variations plus a bonus level, for 15 total game levels, plus the hub level, and final battle level.
Max Overeater is available for purchase or wishlist on the Steam Store as of November 2025 at a retail price of $3.99 USD.
Steam Wishlist is also available at the store link at the top of this page.
Performance
Max Overeater has fantasic performance and was designed to run on even low-end hardware from 10+ years ago.
Minimum System requirements are a 4-Core Processor, 4GB RAM, and a 2GB GPU.
Max Overeater Performance Framerate on various computer systems in my game development lab:
GTX-1650 (4GB) R3-4100 (4C-8T) 16GB - 110 FPS 1920x1080 - 68 FPS 2560x1440 - 32 FPS 3840x2160
RTX-2060 (6GB) i7-6950X (10C-20T) 64GB - 190 FPS 1920x1080 - 120 FPS 2560x1440 - 60 FPS 3840x2160
RTX-3050 (6GB) i7-6800K (6C-12T) 32GB - 135 FPS 1920x1080 - 85 FPS 2560x1440 - 43 FPS 3840x2160
RTX-3080 (10GB) i3-12100F (4C-8T) 16GB - 330 FPS 1920x1080 - 260 FPS 2560x1440 - 140 FPS 3840x2160
RTX-3090 (24GB) W7-2495X (24C-48T) 512GB - 415 FPS 1920x1080 - 320 FPS 2560x1440
RTX-4060 (8GB) i3-12100 (4C-8T) 16GB - 255 FPS 1920x1080 - 165 FPS 2560x1440
RTX-5070 (12GB) i7-12700K (12C-20T) 192GB - 470 FPS 1920x1080 - 350 FPS 2560x1440
RX6800XT (16GB) R5-5600X (6C-12T) 32GB - 435 FPS 1920x1080 - 330 FPS 2560x1440 - 160 FPS 3840x2160
RX7800XT (16GB) R9-5950X (16C-32T) 128GB - 400 FPS 1920x1080 - 360 FPS 2560x1440
Known Issues and Limitations
Max is best played at 16:9 aspect ratio (1280x720, 1920x1080, 2560x1440).
It may be difficult to see the objects along the path when jumping on an ultra-wide display such as 3440x1440.
The menus do not have full gamepad interaction since some of the menus require keyboard text input.
Game Guide ! Spoiler Alert !
Max Overeater is a fast-paced third-person side-scroller similar to Super Mario or RayMan.
You start off in the woods in the mountains, make your way to the plains, the lakes, back alley, kitchen, and then to the battle with the Evil Chef.
Max will restart the level if the health bar runs out, this will be either the start of the level or the last position marker that you ran through.
Be sure to grab the Antacid on each level to boost your health so that you don't run slower as the level timer runs out.
Be sure to ring the Dinner Bell on each level to to increase the level play time.
Be sure to pick up the Floating Max Head to get an extra life.
And locate and free the Captured Cookbooks in the jail cell by punching it or jumping on it and breaking the jail.
Jump up through the clouds on each level to pick up the mints and other pickups located on the tops of the clouds.
The jump-pads with arrows are kickers that will toss Max into the air, in order to get pickups that are floating above the ground.
Use the movement keys or joystick for adjusting Max's position with air control.
Max has full keyboard and mouse plus gamepad control.
