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Frozen Cortex
A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“Not sure why this only shows as 0.1 hours on record when I definitely played for more than that but I can't recommend this. It's a downgrade in almost every way from Frozen Synapse while also feeling less polished. It was rough in 2015 and there's no way I could recommend it in…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Infuriating game, that's the summary, it really is the best way to describe it. So the premise of the game is basically turn based football, I went into it thinking it was fairly strategy heavy, well it is not. Its RNG heavy, the amount of times the CPU was making the craziest…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
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Latest official news
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Controller Update
This is a small update to the game which adds support for game controllers. Currently the game only supports the Xbox 360 controller (and 3rd party compatible controllers) on Windows but on OS X and L
Controller Update
This is a small update to the game which adds support for game controllers. Currently the game only supports the Xbox 360 controller (and 3rd party compatible controllers) on Windows but on OS X and L
Easy Mode and Older League Modes
Two important things to point out from the Manager Update: - There's now an Easy Mode which lets you see the AI's plans before they are committed. This is a great way to help new players learn the gam
Easy Mode and Older League Modes
Two important things to point out from the Manager Update: - There's now an Easy Mode which lets you see the AI's plans before they are committed. This is a great way to help new players learn the gam
Frozen Cortex Manager Mode
Hello, We’re happy to announce that Frozen Cortex Manager is launching today: it’s a free update to the game. It’s effectively a new league mode which has a much more in-depth simulation to the other
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Indie, Sports, Strategy |
| Player tags | Sports · Strategy · Tactical · Indie · Turn-Based · Turn-Based Strategy · Multiplayer · Great Soundtrack · Singleplayer · Robots · Sci-fi · Turn-Based Tactics (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Official site | http://www.frozencortex.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: 1.2GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 & at least 1GB VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: Soundtrack Tier requires extra 1GB disk space, Mega & Ultimate Tiers require extra 4GB disk space.