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Cortex Command (2012)

Data Realms

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

2.61 from 51 ratings

1455 members have it in their collection · 1 playing now · 885 backlogged · 4 wish listed

In the world of Cortex Command, many humans have opted to amputate their entire natural bodies in order to prolong their lives and enable interstellar space travel. Their disembodied brains are hardly helpless, however, as they can remotely control all kinds of machines and craft through artificial interfaces. Playing as one of these people's brains, you can quickly switch control … Read more
In the world of Cortex Command, many humans have opted to amputate their entire natural bodies in order to prolong their lives and enable interstellar space travel. Their disembodied brains are hardly helpless, however, as they can remotely control all kinds of machines and craft through artificial interfaces. Playing as one of these people's brains, you can quickly switch control between many different expendable bodies in order to complete otherwise dangerous tasks - all from the physical safety of your command bunker. Use these technological powers of telepathy to collect gold out of the fully destructible terrain, then purchase even more bodies and materiel with those newly acquired funds! You can even program the crude A.I.s of your puppet army to complete simple tasks (patrolling, digging, etc.) while your attention and direct control is somewhere else. Use your accumulated forces to protect your brain, explore the world, and defeat your competition! Read less
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Developers
Data Realms
Publishers
Data Realms
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Shooter, Strategy
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Steam
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Release dates

  • Sep 28, 2012 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
2
4 stars
11
3 stars
15
2 stars
11
1 star
12
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Haxiel

Review Haxiel 1/5 · Dec 8, 2018

Nope.

So this is what happened with me:

Started the game from Steam. -> Game started in a window, text too tiny to read. -> Tried to make the game fullscreen with Alt+Enter; didn't work. -> Restarted and fiddled with the options to make full screen work. -> "Okay, time to see what this is." -> Launched tutorial mission. -> Distracted …

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So this is what happened with me:

Started the game from Steam. -> Game started in a window, text too tiny to read. -> Tried to make the game fullscreen with Alt+Enter; didn't work. -> Restarted and fiddled with the options to make full screen work. -> "Okay, time to see what this is." -> Launched tutorial mission. -> Distracted by the horrible movement mechanics and imprecise controls. -> Somehow figure out moving around with the jet-pack. -> Formed a squad of 3 robots and went to a fight. -> Destroyed in seconds before I could even see the enemies. -> Restarted the level at a lower difficulty. -> Nope.

All of that happened in 30 minutes, and none of it was good. I had encountered usability problems, bad mechanics and possibly a steep learning curve. One of those could have been acceptable, perhaps, but not all of them at once.

P.S.: There are lots of reviews on Steam of folks appreciating the free-form style of this game. This review is simply my own opinion, and I prefer to have a little more structure in my games.

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