Games like Cortex
If Cortex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Simulator, Seven Nations and Love In Drawing — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into 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.
Battle Simulator
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Top pick for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
Soldier to the assault! Deploy your troops and destroy the enemy army!
Seven Nations
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Second-strongest match for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
The leaders of the seven nations failed to reach a peace agreement. All kingdoms are now at war.
Love In Drawing
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Third-strongest match for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
Reflect and draw! Love In Drawing is a game that aims to make you reflect to solve levels where you need to gather red and blue balls.
Centipede Gun
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Ranked #4 for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
Centipede Gun is a roguelite autobattler where you create bizzare creatures to face hordes of enemies! Combine different guns, modules and skills to make unique synergies and upgrade your cute little destruction machine!
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
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Ranked #5 for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
Feudal Fantasy Incremental
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Ranked #6 for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Novice Dungeon Master
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Ranked #7 for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
[Novice Dungeon Master] is a dungeon management simulation set in a fantasy world of dungeons and adventures. Turn your beginner dungeon into the ultimate dungeon of your dreams. Greet adventurers who come to visit your dungeon, grow herbs, summon monsters, and more!
GLONK
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Ranked #8 for Cortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
A short incremental game about feeding Glonk! Make Glonk bigger, get more money, and explore the skill tree to upgrade your abilities, and get more Glonks!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cortex at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cortex.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cortex.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cortex.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cortex.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cortex.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~50% under Cortex on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Cortex.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cortex.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cortex.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cortex.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cortex.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 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.
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Initial Drift Online
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Another title from RewindApp, the studio behind Cortex. Shares Indie with Cortex.
Drift over some of Japan's most legendary mountain passes, compete against your friends or players from around the world in epic battles, make deliveries, buy new cars and set records in the world rankings!
Drift Of The Hill
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Another title from RewindApp, the studio behind Cortex. Shares Indie with Cortex.
In DOTH you will have to master the art of drifting in the mountain passes!
Hentai Temple
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Another title from RewindApp, the studio behind Cortex. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cortex.
Hentai Temple is a classic Sliding puzzle game but with a slight Japanese touch ...
Retrowave World
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Another title from RewindApp, the studio behind Cortex. Shares Indie with Cortex.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, chrome robot women, speeding 80s supercars... Welcome to Retrowave World!
Retrowave 2
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Another title from RewindApp, the studio behind Cortex. Shares Indie and Casual with Cortex.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
Frequently asked about Cortex
- How much does Cortex cost?
- Cortex is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cortex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cortex are Battle Simulator, Seven Nations, Love In Drawing.
- Who developed Cortex?
- Cortex was developed by RewindApp.
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