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''Mine precious gold from the deformable pixel terrain in order to buy more and better ships, soldiers, weapons, digging tools, and deployable defenses. Use these assets to defend your disembodied brain and bankrupt your opponent! Old-school 2D sidescroller pixel graphics coupled with an extremely detailed physics simulation makes for a mix of nostalgia and surprising gameplay.'' - Product description

So in the future, you're a [[Brain In A Jar]], on a ''[[~~Worms (Video Game)|~~Worms]]''-like 2D battlefield controlling [[Mooks]]. You're competing with other factions on a new, Earth-like planet to find resources and ship them back to civilization, or at least whatever you have left, since you spend pretty much all your money on weaponry. Notable for having an impressively advanced physics and destruction engine, which can allow for a variety of emergent gameplay.

So in the future, you're a [[Brain In a Jar]], on a ''[[Worms]]''-like 2D battlefield controlling [[Mooks]]. You're competing with other factions on a new, Earth-like planet to find resources and ship them back to civilization, or at least whatever you have left, since you spend pretty much all your money on weaponry. Notable for having an impressively advanced physics and destruction engine, which can allow for a variety of emergent gameplay.

The game isn't actually finished yet. Created by Data Realms, the [[Retraux]] game currently is a demo with several test levels, some of which have a [[Allegedly Free Game|six minute time limit]], making it in essence a sophisticated toy. Regardless, Data Realm is encouraging players to buy the game now, for $18 instead of the $38 they're planning to charge when the game is complete, a model also used successfully by ''[[~~Mount and Blade (Video Game)|~~Mount and Blade]]'' and (On a cheaper scale) [[Minecraft]].

The game isn't actually finished yet. Created by Data Realms, the [[Retraux]] game currently is a demo with several test levels, some of which have a [[Allegedly Free Game|six minute time limit]], making it in essence a sophisticated toy. Regardless, Data Realm is encouraging players to buy the game now, for $18 instead of the $38 they're planning to charge when the game is complete, a model also used successfully by ''[[Mount and Blade]]'' and (On a cheaper scale) [[Minecraft]].

The game features a slowly growing single player campaign with five scenarios currently available. There are several levels available for skirmish mode, and the game features splitscreen multiplayer but no online element. The creator is currently focusing on expanding the campaigns and code for the game while having additional staff work on [http://androidarts.com/cortexcommand/ content] as the code rolls out. The game also has a very active modding community and a wide variety of mods that add or change many features in the game as well as adding campaign missions and skirmish areas.

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* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Cluster mine bomb and cluster grenade.

* [[Big Bad]]: The currently fluff-only Remnants of Mu-ilaak.

* [[Brain In A Jar]]

* [[Brain In a Jar]]

* [[Brain Uploading]]

* [[Bullethole Door]]: A possible tactic for entering enemy forts.

** Often difficult to pull off, though, as very few tools can penetrate the steel-reinforced concrete of the bunkers.

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Rocket Propelled Chain Saws.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: You can end up bleeding and legless but assuming you still have arms, work perfectly fine in combat until the fatal shot. Heck, even totally limbless people can still "help" [[Grievous Harm ~~With~~ a Body|by flying around and bashing people with their jetpacks...]]

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: You can end up bleeding and legless but assuming you still have arms, work perfectly fine in combat until the fatal shot. Heck, even totally limbless people can still "help" [[Grievous Harm with a Body|by flying around and bashing people with their jetpacks...]]

* [[Colony Drop]]: The delivery vehicles that your stuff comes in make remarkably good disposable weapons. It's possible to simply order an empty dropship or rocket and smash it into the enemy.

** Or better, order one full of crab bodies and bombs. Then drop it on the enemy base.

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* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]

* [[Jet Pack]]: Most characters have one, and they're both a.) vital for getting around and b.) comically difficult to steer.

* [[Kill It ~~With~~ Fire]]: Molotov Cocktails, incendiary bombs from drop ships, incendiary grenades, flame throwers.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Molotov Cocktails, incendiary bombs from drop ships, incendiary grenades, flame throwers.

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The crab body is tiny, defenseless, and can't do anything but crawl around. However, they're also free--if you pack several dozen of them into a single rocket or crate, you have yourself a very cheap [[Big Bulky Bomb]] that will kill everything on the map in a holocaust of flying crabmeat.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Three playable factions plus two additional ones in game give it a well rounded cast.

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* [[2-D Space]]: The entire game is 2D, space as well, evidenced by the TradeStar that orbits the planet exactly perpendicular to your eye.

* [[Weaponized Exhaust]]: the dropships are unarmed, but can be used to quite deadly effect by flying them on top of enemy units and hitting the throttle. The rockets, on the other hand, must be used with extreme care, because their exhaust has the tendency to kill the units they just delivered.

* [[We Cannot Go On Without You]]/[[Decapitated Army]]: If your brain is destroyed, you will automatically lose. Justified, as the units that you order are literally brainless and have to be controlled by you.

* [[We Cannot Go on Without You]]/[[Decapitated Army]]: If your brain is destroyed, you will automatically lose. Justified, as the units that you order are literally brainless and have to be controlled by you.