Cortex Command

Cortex Command is a 2D action game with pixel graphics and a detailed physics engine. You protect your brain, mine gold and destroy the enemy cortex in its bunker. Its real-time tactical battles can also be linked through a turn-based strategic campaign, where terrain and bunkers persist between fights and accumulate debris, ruins and other traces of battle.

Factions and battles

Choose from several technology factions, each with its own expendable soldier bodies, mechas, weapons, tools and landing craft. Gold is scattered through each scene’s terrain; use digging tools to blast through dirt and debris, collect it and reach enemy bunkers. Bodies and ship parts fall to the ground and remain on the battlefield. More powerful, more expensive diggers can tunnel into enemy bunkers from below.

Campaign and bunkers

In Campaign mode, tactical fights have strategic consequences. Gold-rich terrain and the defensive bunkers you build persist from one battle to the next, with debris, ruins, tunnels and corpses building up over the course of each campaign.

At the start of most missions, you can build a command bunker from scratch. Lay out tunnels, doors, traps and turrets, then deploy and equip bodies in and around the installation before the mission begins. Your funds are limited, so spending too much on preparation leaves less for the mission.

Equipment and transport

You can order bodies and equipment through an in-game buying menu at any time and location. Choose where and how the delivery arrives: rockets cost less but are unreliable and harder to land, while more expensive drop ships can quickly deploy entire groups of puppets onto difficult terrain. Equipment and ships returned to the TradeStar are refunded to your account.

Multiplayer and editing

Up to four players can play skirmish or campaign missions cooperatively or against one another. The game supports matches such as 2 vs 2, 1 vs 3 and four players against the CPU.

Several built-in editors let you create missions, characters, ships, weapons, tools, bombs and shields. The game’s engine also supports adding and modifying content, which you can share with friends.