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2012PC82 % positive18.99 €

A 2D blend of shooter and real-time strategy where you play a disembodied brain remotely controlling many expendable clone and robot bodies. A fully destructible pixel world and physics chaos make every fight unpredictable.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Pixel art
  • Deep systems to master
  • Sci-fi setting

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In short: Games like Cortex Command

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Mindustry

86 %Match

2017PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Cortex Command: a sandbox with your own goals, pixel art and complex systems to tinker with.

Mindustry blends tower defense with factory building: you design conveyor networks and production chains to supply resources and ammo for defenses against enemy waves. It also offers a map editor, co-op and PvP.

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Rusted Warfare

Pixel art

A 2D real-time strategy game with a pixel art look, recalling Total Annihilation with huge armies of tanks, ships and aircraft. It focuses on base building, resource management and cooperative or competitive skirmishes.

Barotrauma

Deep systems to master

You crew a submarine with friends through the icy ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa. Every task, from reactor to weapons to hull leaks, matters, and small mistakes quickly spiral into chaotic survival.

PlanetSide 2

Sandbox with your own goals

A free-to-play MMO shooter where three factions fight over huge continents with hundreds of players, tanks and aircraft at once. Teamwork and combined-arms coordination matter far more than any story.

Battlezone 98 Redux

Tactical depth

A hybrid of first-person vehicle shooter and real-time strategy, where you pilot a unit from the cockpit while commanding your base and forces in an alternate 1960s space race. The Redux edition adds refreshed visuals, online multiplayer and Steam Workshop mods.

Running With Rifles

Pixel art

A top-down tactical shooter where you control a single soldier within an army of hundreds, fighting chaotic battles across open maps. It offers a single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer and co-op.

MechWarrior Online

Deep systems to master

An online mech combat game set in the BattleTech universe, where players pilot heavy BattleMechs with customized weapon and armor loadouts in team-based battles. Positioning, heat management and teamwork matter more than twitch reflexes.

Squad

Deep systems to master

A large-scale, realistic multiplayer tactical shooter where communication and squad teamwork decide the outcome. Vehicles, sprawling maps and player-built bases create authentic combined-arms battles.

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