Games like Cortex Command
by Data Realms
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
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$4.99POWDR
3 days ago · SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Both: Sandbox · Physics · Pixel Graphics
POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.
SimulationCasualSandboxPhysicsImmersive SimDestructionPixel GraphicsAbstractGod GameColorful
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Sandbox
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$4.99TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
Aug 27 · AZAMATIKA
Both: Pixel Graphics · Sandbox
A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
ExplorationComedySide Scroller2DPixel GraphicsSandboxAuto BattlerTradingOpen WorldWalking Simulator👍 1,533
$8.99Powdertron
6 days ago · SalE
Both: Sandbox · Physics
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
SandboxSimulationBuildingSciencePhysicsTutorial2DCasualRelaxingColorful
$9.99Friendly Steps
Sep 3 · KORO.GAMES
Both: Physics
A HARDCORE physics-based 1-4 player co-op RAGE GAME about getting home after a wild night out. It was a fun night! Now grab your buddies and walk home. IF YOU REMEMBER HOW.
MultiplayerPhysicsWalking SimulatorOnline Co-OpChoices MatterAdventureDifficultComedyPlatformerCo-op👍 233
$8.99Lander
3 days ago · DextericGames
Both: Physics · Pixel Graphics
Fly the Lander, collect the fuel, avoid obstacles and perfect your skills to attempt a soft landing in this difficult precision platformer.
Precision PlatformerRacing2D PlatformerDifficultArcadeRetroScore AttackPhysicsPixel GraphicsSingleplayer
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
-10%$17.09ArmorSim
5 days ago · Timerlan Galimov
Both: Sandbox
An armour penetration sandbox. Build the target from plates, thicknesses and angles, pick a penetrator from American, Soviet and German service rounds, fire. The hit is not animated — it is solved from real terminal-ballistics models.
SimulationSandboxBullet HeavenBullet HellExploration2DRealistic3DMinimalistEarly Access👍 119
$3.99Cells
Sep 6 · Mousetrick Studio
Both: Physics
CELLS is a calm sci-fi trading game about goods, routes and decisions. Explore new worlds, build trade chains, mine resources and uncover the story of a broken network between the worlds.
CasualRelaxingMinimalistProcedural GenerationLogicAtmosphericPhysicsLinearTutorial2D
-40%$29.99STRATA
3 days ago · Gamesforgames
Both: Pixel Graphics
STRATA is an arcade descent through rock that is destroyed cell by cell. You pilot a drilling capsule from a dome on the surface, and everything below the first metre is procedurally generated geology: dirt, clay, stone, shale, granite, basalt, obsidian, ironstone.
CasualRoguelikeExplorationDungeon CrawlerPixel Graphics2DAtmosphericFamily FriendlyOld SchoolSingleplayer
$29.99Active Matter
6 days ago · Matter Team
Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in the quantum unstable zones over control of the active matter – the substance that bends time and space.
FPSHorrorExtraction ShooterPvEPvPAtmosphericCo-opOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction👍 802
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
7 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Sandbox
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
$11.99Sublight
6 days ago · CODEBREW SOFTWARE LTD
Both: Sci-fi
Sublight is a space bullet heaven roguelike, where you captain a powerful warship and carve through escalating waves of enemies. Upgrade your arsenal, unlock new ships, and experiment with countless builds to dominate the battlefield.
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteArcade3DTop-DownActionCasualLootSci-fi
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
-40%$2.99Thuggin It Further
2 days ago · Firetoad Games, Nebula Radiance
High intensity co-op roguelite space adventure party game for 2–4 players (or bots). Take on crew jobs, keep a failing ship alive, and survive procedural missions with endless exploration, light RPG progression, and real-time crisis gameplay.
Early AccessAction RoguelikeExplorationStrategyRoguelitePvEArcadeParty GameAction-AdventureRoguelike
$0.99Neighbor Fight
4 days ago · CHICKEN SODA GAMES
Both: Physics
Multiplayer first person strategy game with lots of destruction. Destroy the house of your neighbor(s) by throwing furniture and build a business by selling weed! Or team up with your neighbor(s) to survive the revolution of the no longer enslaved Oonky civilization.
First-PersonPvPDestructionResource ManagementStrategyPhysicsAction3DMultiplayerColorful

