Co-op games like Cortex Command

Loved how chaotic and retro Cortex Command can get? These co-op games line up well for what comes next. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

Forts
Forts is a 2D physics strategy game where you and co-op friends build a fort in real time, bolt on guns from machine guns to plasma, and try to drop the other fort first. Matches hold up to eight players, and collapsing physics does the punchline work for you.
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
92% of 21,367 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 453$14.99
Territory Control 2
A 2D multiplayer sandbox game revolving around industry, innovation, factions, combat and emergent gameplay. Design factories, customize tools and weapons, fight or trade with other players or get viciously murdered by an angry badger.
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
76% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Mindustry
Build turret lines and conveyor spaghetti with co-op friends, then hold your core against waves or send tanks at each other in team PvP. Mindustry mixes factory chains, tower defense, and small RTS assaults across two planet campaigns, with public servers, private sessions, and mods to keep the machines humming.
Retro, Replayable, Competitive
95% of 25,093 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 672$9.99
Planetoid Pioneers
Explore deep circular worlds in this Physicsvania with couch Co-Op combat, crafting, and ridiculous physics fails! Also bring your own game ideas to life with the powerful engine and integrated game development tools. Each Planetoid is a whole separate game mode that you can fully edit and easily share!
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
59% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Teardown
Plan heists with up to 12 co-op friends in a voxel world where every wall can become a doorway. Scout a level, smash your shortcut, then grab the loot together before the alarm runs out. Best with friends who love plotting as much as breaking things.
Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
95% of 128,629 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,092$14.99
Retro Commander
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Retro, Replayable, Competitive
76% of 377 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Rusted Warfare - RTS
A throwback RTS built for huge land, air, and sea battles with friends. Team up against the AI, share control of your armies, and throw 50-plus units plus late-game experimentals at the problem until the map is yours.
Retro, Replayable, Competitive
96% of 6,737 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$4.99
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
A bright voxel RTS built for co-op friends: team up in the two-player campaign, hold out together in Survival, or fill huge maps with up to 8 armies for friendly skirmishes. Build bases, roll tanks, sail battleships, and call down superweapons while the blocks fly.
Retro, Replayable, Competitive
80% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
Lumencraft
Lumencraft is a top-down shooter crossed with base building and tower defense, set in dark underground tunnels where you drill for Lumen, humanity's last energy source.
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
75% of 1,087 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker is a base-building survival game with action-RPG combat, playable solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players. You land a mech-suit on planet Galatea 37, raise mines, power plants and walls, then fight off thousands of alien creatures with your own guns while towers hold the line.
Replayable
90% of 22,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,035$9.89
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Command special ops squads in top-down raids where every door can hide a bomber or a hostage. Plan with pause-at-will, breach walls, and coordinate with co-op friends in tense missions for up to 4 players. Worth playing for the satisfaction of a clean, well-timed entry.
Replayable, Brutal
96% of 12,483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$24.99
Besiege
Besiege is a physics building game about medieval machines that smash armies and castles. With co-op friends you bring those rickety catapults, saws and flying contraptions into multiplayer, team up to clear objectives and puzzles or turn on each other in machine combat.
Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
95% of 48,201 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 179$14.99

Cheaper than Cortex Command

Forts

Forts is a 2D physics strategy game where you and co-op friends build a fort in real time, bolt on guns from machine guns to plasma, and try to drop…

$14.99

Mindustry

Build turret lines and conveyor spaghetti with co-op friends, then hold your core against waves or send tanks at each other in team PvP.

$9.99

Teardown

Plan heists with up to 12 co-op friends in a voxel world where every wall can become a doorway.

$14.99

Rusted Warfare - RTS

A throwback RTS built for huge land, air, and sea battles with friends.

$4.99

The Riftbreaker

The Riftbreaker is a base-building survival game with action-RPG combat, playable solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players.

$9.89

Lumencraft

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter crossed with base building and tower defense, set in dark underground tunnels where you drill for Lumen, humanity's…

$9.99

Besiege

Besiege is a physics building game about medieval machines that smash armies and castles.

$14.99

Dig or Die

You crash as a tool salesman on a hostile planet, then dig, craft and build your way to a rocket off it.

$11.99

Superfighters Deluxe

Superfighters Deluxe is a chaotic 2D brawler, shooter and platformer where you and co-op friends brawl through destructible arenas with bottles…

$9.99

Trailmakers

Build cars, boats, planes and strange hybrids block by block, then take them out with co-op friends across land, sea, air and space.

$7.49

Forged Battalion

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles.

$9.99

RUNNING WITH RIFLES

RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter where you are one ordinary soldier among thousands.

$3.74

Hidden gems like Cortex Command

Plastic Battlegrounds

Set up the battlefield with an ever growing list of units, vehicles, and emplacements!

$9.99

Block Fortress 2

Choose a planet, build your fortress, and prepare for war. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, deploy troops, construct turrets, and defend your…

$19.99

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Command special ops squads in top-down raids where every door can hide a bomber or a hostage.

$24.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

A bright voxel RTS built for co-op friends: team up in the two-player campaign, hold out together in Survival, or fill huge maps with up to 8 armies…

$19.99

SENTRY

Defend your spaceship from alien boarders with guns, traps and blast doors while plotting your escape through hostile space.

$15.99

Executive Assault 2

Executive Assault 2 mixes base-building strategy with first-person shooting in space.

$24.99

Attack on Toys

Plastic soldiers, tanks, helicopters and mechs fighting room-to-room across toy battlefields.

$6.99

Guardians Frontline

Guardians Frontline is a sci-fi VR shooter that makes you a soldier and a commander.

$24.99

Scrap Mechanic

Crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet gone wrong, then team up with co-op friends to build vehicles, grow crops, and hold off waves of…

$28.99

Retro Commander

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Free

Lumencraft

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter crossed with base building and tower defense, set in dark underground tunnels where you drill for Lumen, humanity's…

$9.99

Creeper World 4

A real-time strategy game about holding back a living blue flood across 3D hills and valleys, now with experimental co-op multiplayer, so you and…

$24.99

Newest co-op games like Cortex Command