Cortex Command overview

Overview

Cortex Command comes from Data Realms and is published by Data Realms, LLC. It arrived on Steam on Sep 28, 2012, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Cortex Command's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 3 players at 11 September 2026 - 09:48:02 UTC, with a tracked peak near 20. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 72% positive across 6,049 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Cortex Command is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Cortex Command has sold up to 1,100,000 units and has 2,003 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $15,400,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Cortex Command overview details

Cortex Command combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

A project over eleven years in the making, Cortex Command has rich 2D pixel graphics coupled with an extremely detailed physics engine, which allows for highly replayable and emergent real-time action. There is also a turn-based strategic campaign mode which ties the tactical fights together, featuring persistent terrains that will accumulate the battle scars, debris, and bunker ruins through your entire campaign. Choose from several unique technology factions, each featuring their own sets of expendable soldier bodies, mechas, weapons, tools, and landing craft. Protect your brain, mine the gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex! Key Features: Fully destructible environments - The gold you need to excavate is sprinkled throughout the terrain of each scene. Use special digging tools to blast your way into the dirt and debris. All the pieces of bodies and ships from your struggles will fall to the ground and permanently add to the battlefield. Get more powerful (and expensive) diggers and you can even tunnel into your enemies' bunkers from below! Strategic metagame campaign – The intense, real-time tactical battles are put in a greater strategic context in the Campaign mode, thus giving each battle meaning and consequence. The gold-rich terrains on the planet and the defensive bunkers you build to defend them are persistent from fight to fight. This means there will be layers of debris, bunker ruins, tunnels, and corpses piled up in layers, telling the history of each place throughout each campaign played. In-game buying menu - At any time and place durin…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Cortex Command is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Action, Indie, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 3 players at 11 September 2026 - 09:48:02 UTC, a tracked peak of 20, and 72% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StrategyIndieAction2DPhysicsSandboxPixel GraphicsModdableLocal Co-OpSci-fiSingleplayerLocal MultiplayerDifficultGorePlatformer

Content descriptors

Depictions or physical violence against and mutilation of both biological and non-biological (robot) bodies.

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Support and legal notes

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