Games like Cortex Command

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

Forts
Forts is a physics-based strategy game where you build a fortress in real time, arm it with machine guns, snipers and missiles, and blast your opponent's creation into a smoldering heap. Every wall you add and every shot you take has weight, so a clever design can hold the line or collapse spectacularly. Build, defend, demolish, repeat.
Also in Co-op · 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.
Also in Co-op · Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
76% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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!
Also in Co-op · Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
59% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Mindustry
Mindustry mixes factory building with tower defense and real-time strategy. You mine, move and refine resources, feed ammo to turrets, hold your core against waves, then build armies and take enemy bases. It is worth playing for that loop of tinkering, defending and expanding.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Replayable, Competitive
95% of 25,093 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 672$9.99
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Lead red or blue wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places and fantasy worlds, then watch the wobbliest physics decide who stays standing. With 100+ silly units, campaigns, sandbox, possession and multiplayer, it is strategy that keeps collapsing into comedy.
Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
97% of 145,323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,787$19.99
Teardown
Teardown gives you a fully destructible voxel world and a job to pull: steal the goods, dodge robots, and get out. Smash walls with vehicles, wire explosives, or flatten a building because it is in the way. Plan first, then run the route when the alarm starts.
Also in Co-op · 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).
Also in Co-op · Retro, Replayable, Competitive
76% of 377 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
The enemy is not an army, it is a fluid that floods the map. Build an energy network, hold choke points, terraform the land and push the tide back tile by tile. A strategy game with a simple idea and endless depth, plus thousands of player-made worlds.
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
96% of 4,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 179$14.99
Ravenfield
A singleplayer war sandbox where every soldier except you is a bot. Command squads, fly helicopters, drive tanks and watch active ragdoll physics turn serious battles into slapstick, then reshape the whole war with community mods.
Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
96% of 76,859 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 450$17.99
Rusted Warfare - RTS
A retro RTS built for scale: over 50 units, experimental war machines and battles with thousands of sprites running smoothly. Play challenges, skirmish or sandbox, then take it online with up to 10 players. Simple to learn, endlessly moddable, and the kind of game you keep coming back to.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Replayable, Competitive
96% of 6,737 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$4.99
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
A colorful voxel RTS where you build a base, pump out a modern army and wage war on land, sea and air. Over two dozen missions, co-op, 8-player skirmishes and superweapons. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, harder to master.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Replayable, Competitive
80% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Design your own fleet and throw it at the Particulate, a space-filling enemy driven by real physics instead of scripts. Ships get chewed apart piece by piece and patch themselves up again. A tense, replayable RTS with a campaign, a random map generator and editors for ships and maps.
Chaotic, Retro, Replayable
92% of 1,203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$14.99

Cheaper than Cortex Command

Forts

Stack walls and weapons onto a wobbling physics fortress, then trade fire in fast, chaotic matches where one good shot can bring the whole thing down.

$14.99

Mindustry

Build supply lines, keep your turrets fed and push out to take the enemy's base.

$9.99

Teardown

Plan a heist through a fully destructible world, then watch your tidy route turn into glorious chaos.

$14.99

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

Build an energy network and push back a rising tide of enemy fluid, tile by tile, across endless player-made worlds.

$14.99

Ravenfield

A singleplayer war sandbox where every soldier except you is a bot.

$17.99

Rusted Warfare - RTS

Build bases, command armies of robots and mechs, and battle friends in real time across huge pixel-art warzones.

$4.99

Particle Fleet: Emergence

Build ships that get torn apart and patched mid-fight, then throw them at an enemy that spreads and adapts in real time.

$14.99

Lumencraft

Mine glowing Lumen in a fully destructible underground, build your base, and shoot back when the swarms come.

$9.99

The Riftbreaker

You are captain Ashley S. Nowak, a scientist-commando in a Mecha-Suit, sent through a one-way portal to planet Galatea 37.

$9.89

Warbox

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone.

$9.99

Besiege

Bolt together cannons, blades and wings, then watch your wobbly creation smash through castles or fall apart laughing.

$14.99

Dig or Die

Dig for resources, craft laser weapons and turrets, and engineer a base that survives the monsters it made angry.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Cortex Command

Mech Havoc

Rogue AI HIVE has taken the planet, and you answer with steel.

$9.99

Instruments of Destruction

Drive absurdly overbuilt machines through a physics playground where buildings crumble into flying debris, then do it all again for a better score.

$19.99

Cataclismo

Build fortresses brick by brick, then hold them against the Horrors of the Mist.

$29.99

Drop Command

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

$22.99

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

Draw up a squad plan, pause the action to adjust it, and watch the breach unfold in real time.

$24.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

Retro Commander

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

Free

Creeper World IXE

Command a squad of ships against an all-consuming alien fluid across hundreds of simulated worlds.

$19.99

Warpips

Pick your units, call in airstrikes, and let the little soldiers fight for every inch of the line.

$16.99

Lumencraft

Mine glowing Lumen in a fully destructible underground, build your base, and shoot back when the swarms come.

$9.99

Creeper World 4

Build cannons, manage energy and push a liquid enemy off 3D terrain before it swallows your defenses.

$24.99

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