Games like Cortex Command
Closest overall match: Natural Selection 2 (★ 3.3). Highest rated: Gunpoint at ★ 4.0. Quickest to finish: Fractured Space at about 1 hours.
We compared Cortex Command against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are steam-trading-cards, Includes level editor and Great Soundtrack. Updated Oct 15, 2026.
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67%
1. Natural Selection 2
Shares Moddable, RTS, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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62%
2. Satellite Reign
Shares RTS, Local Multiplayer, Great Soundtrack, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 11%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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61%
3. Survivor Squad
Shares Zombies, 2D, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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61%
4. Gunpoint
Shares Includes level editor, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 1.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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59%
5. Orcs Must Die! 2
Shares Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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58%
6. Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Shares Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Pixel Graphics and 7 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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57%
7. Fractured Space
Shares Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 12%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
-
57%
8. Frozen Synapse
Shares Replay Value, Great Soundtrack, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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57%
9. Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
Shares Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
57%
10. No Time To Explain Remastered
Shares Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
56%
11. Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Shares Pixel Graphics, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 18%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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56%
12. The Red Solstice
Shares RTS, Zombies, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 7%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Cortex Command?
On our similarity model, Natural Selection 2 is the closest match to Cortex Command — shares Moddable, RTS, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; same release year.
Which game like Cortex Command is rated highest?
Gunpoint holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.0/5 from 294 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Cortex Command on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.