Games like Frozen Cortex
If Frozen Cortex is your kind of game, the closest matches are BATTLETECH, Frozen Synapse 2 and Frozen Synapse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Frozen Cortex: A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
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Steam players who put hours into Frozen Cortex also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Cortex.
Top pick for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Frozen Synapse 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Cortex.
Second-strongest match for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Frozen Synapse 2 is the sequel to the award-winning turn-based tactical game. Command your squads in a vast procedurally generated city: enter any building, perform any mission, execute any strategy.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares asynchronous multiplayer and an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Third-strongest match for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Chaos Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Ranked #4 for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Football, Tactics & Glory
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Cortex.
Ranked #5 for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares team management and a competitive mood with Frozen Cortex.
Ranked #7 for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Frozen Cortex.
Ranked #8 for Frozen Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
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Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Reviewers of Frozen Cortex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports and Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frozen Cortex cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares asynchronous multiplayer and an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Reviewers of Frozen Cortex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Reviewers of Frozen Cortex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Frozen Cortex at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frozen Cortex.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Frozen Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Mode 7, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares asynchronous multiplayer and an intense mood with Frozen Cortex.
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Cortex. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Frozen Synapse 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Cortex.
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Cortex. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Cortex.
Frozen Synapse 2 is the sequel to the award-winning turn-based tactical game. Command your squads in a vast procedurally generated city: enter any building, perform any mission, execute any strategy.
TIME STRIKE
WHY THIS
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Cortex. Shares Indie with Frozen Cortex.
TIME STRIKE is a single-player FPS that gives you maximum control: stop time to dodge projectiles, rip down walls, line up a headshot, and flip flying debris into hapless enemies. CONTROL TIME. CONTROL SPACE.
Frequently asked about Frozen Cortex
- How much does Frozen Cortex cost?
- Frozen Cortex is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Frozen Cortex have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Frozen Cortex supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Frozen Cortex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Frozen Cortex are BATTLETECH, Frozen Synapse 2, Frozen Synapse.
- Who developed Frozen Cortex?
- Frozen Cortex was developed by Mode 7.
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