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Cortex Command
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I never reviewed this? Ive put hundreds of hours into this and every time i pick it up its just as fun. Highly reccomended.”
— a player, Steam review · 397 hrs played“its peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Well, first, it's abandoned. Even a startup screen says "campaign is playable but unfinished". And that's after it came to steam, ~7 years ago, [b]*after*[/b] it sat unfinished, in "independent web-space" for idk how long. As for actual gameplay... I just started but it seems to…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:41 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
PPO EA Build 3: In-game CHAT, Performance, Discord
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Cortex Command is going OPEN SOURCE - and gets LAN multiplayer in B33
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/35393276/33a0b6b2a6e1d6d9af0329d6e2bcb18272c53455.png (image by Arne and community member MaximDude) It's a monumental day for Data R
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Indie · Action · 2D · Physics · Sandbox · Pixel Graphics · Moddable · Local Co-Op · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · Local Multiplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://cortexcommand.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 Processor: 1GHz processor Memory: 1GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 150MB HDD space Video Card: 640x480 (VGA) resolution monitor Additional: Should run on any PC released within the past 5 years.