- #1 Plague Architect
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Plague Architect is a strategic outbreak simulator set in a mall. Evolve symptoms and abilities to spread infection. Watch chaos unfold.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Tactical 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.7%
- #2 Plague Inc: Evolved
85% matchVery Positive94% of 59,438 reviews2016
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.1% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Tactical 5.4%, Post-apocalyptic 4.3%
- #3 Quarantine
85% matchMixed60% of 435 reviews2017
Dev: SproingPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61% ★, Strategy 9%, Tactical 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.8%
- #4 40 Days [四十天]
79% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Black Phoenix Studio
Windows · Mac
40 Days is a special strategy simulation game related to infectious diseases spread all over the city. You, as ahead of the quarantine department, have been given full authority and manpower to contain the city, deal with different parties, virus in the city and most importantly find out the cure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 79.4% ★, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Difficult 3.9%, Indie 1.6%
- #5 Trojan Inc.
78% matchMostly Negative36% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: WalkBoy Studio
Windows
Will you be able to infect all devices of the world? «Trojan Inc.» - simulator, which will involve you in a world of computer viruses and trojans.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 80.2% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 1.9%
- #6 Warranted Humanity
75% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 7.4%, Difficult 6.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #7 Infect and Destroy
77% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: FarrugiaSoft
Windows · Linux
Play as the zombies! Infect and Destroy is an indie game in which you play as an infectious disease with the sole purpose of eliminating everyone on Earth. Play as an ultra-intelligent self-aware virus capable of reanimating the dead and turning them into your minions.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 76.7% ★, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.2%, Casual 3.5%, Survival 2.9%
- #8 Just A Flu
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheSociopathSoftware
Windows
Just A Flu is a strategy simulation game about fighting the deadly fast spreading disease. Decide how to deal with infected people, when to close transport hubs, declare quarantine, or lockdown. Can you not only stop pandemic but avoid panic and not destroy the economy, causing more harm?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%
- #9 Evil Labs
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.4% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #10 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
75% matchVery Positive83% of 1,283 reviews2018
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 62.8% ★, Difficult 7.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Tactical 5.4%
- #11 Garden Apocalypse
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OMEGABYTE
Windows
Once a thriving alien world, now a vast desert—devoured by the relentless Swarm. These towering insect invaders have left only scattered oases and buried ruins. Grow food, craft powerful resources, and uncover lost secrets to push back against the tide and restore balance to a dying world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.7% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 7.2%
- #12 Chernobyl 1986
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Detalion Games S.A.
Windows
Chernobyl 1986 is a decision-based game about one of the largest nuclear power plant disasters in history. Play as the manager of a nuclear power plant in a time of a serious crisis that can cost millions of lives.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 32.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Difficult 8.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #13 Commander: Zombie Wars
74% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a gripping turn-based tactical game in a zombie-infested world. Choose survivors or zombies. Gather resources, recruit allies, and strategize against the undead or join the undead. Shape custom maps, and decide the fate of the world. Join the fight now!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Tactical 7.1%
- #14 DeadOS
71% matchVery Positive99% of 158 reviews2021
Dev: Benn Powell
Windows
DeadOS is an early access zombie outbreak simulator by Benn Powell that focuses on city-wide scenarios where you have access to fully customize your apocalypse experience from beginning to end. Simulation. Sandbox. Survival!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 84.5% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Sandbox 4.3%, Survival 2.7%, Indie 1.4%
- #15 Theology - Religion Creator
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Team
Windows
Create your very own religion and make history by dominating the whole wide world! Define your dogmas and wage holy wars on land, sea, and in the sky. Convert as many as you can to your belief system!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Difficult 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Realistic 7.4%
- #16 Virus Petya
72% matchMixed59% of 39 reviews2018
Dev: Laush Dmitriy SergeevichPub: Laush Studio
Windows
Virus Petya - a simulator of the system administrator. In this game you need to run from one computer to another, to remove from the computer a terrible virus "PETYA". But it's not easy, because with each attempt of the virus to infect the computer, the virus gets closer to the end of his successful work
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 79.1% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Atmospheric 2.9%, Indie 2.3%, 2D 2.2%
- #17 I Am Zombie
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Survival 3.9%, Indie 0.8%
- #18 Angry Mother Earth
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ice Quake GamesPub: Ice Quake Studios
Windows
Angry Mother Earth offers a one-of-a-kind strategy experience within an fully simulated world. Wield and merge a variety of abilities to release cataclysmic forces—ranging from hurricanes and earthquakes to blizzards—upon the world of humans. But be warned: humanity won't go down without a fight!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Tactical 11.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%
- #19 Quarantine Zombies
68% matchMixed58% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Stones Games
Windows
A first-person shooter meets quarantine inspection in post-apocalyptic Chicago. You’ve got 30 days until the army arrives. Hold out, fix your car, and fight your way through Chicago to the main checkpoint to save your little brother.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 65.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%, Realistic 4.3%
- #20 Prisoners Hunt
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Leclerc Alexandre
Windows
Fulgeonix criminals, made of pure energy, escape and sow chaos. Hunted by the Chaenombrus, guardians who can make themselves invisible, they must use their transformative powers to survive. In “Prisoners Hunt”, every escape is a fight for freedom.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 59.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Realistic 8.6%, Survival 4.2%
- #21 Simulator Z
68% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: CASHPub: GorillaGamesStudio
Windows
A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 67.2% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Indie 1.3%
- #22 Barricade Protocol
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Analiz Games
Windows
Barricade Protocol: Survive in the world's last bastion, the Vera Hospital. Farm on the rooftops, generate power on balconies, and transform patient rooms into shops to build your own vertical city within the hospital corridors.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #23 The Fabulous Fear Machine
67% matchVery Positive90% of 560 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: AMC Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.8% ★, Difficult 10.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #24 STAND: Survive, Team-up, And Never Die
67% matchMixed68% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Perk-CitronPub: Studio Jylko
Windows
Team up with survivors, customize your character, and combine over 70 weapons and items to defend your central tower against endless waves of enemies. Choose your skills, craft insane synergies, and unleash chaos in intense bullet-hell combat.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Realistic 5.5%
- #25 The Outbreak Guardian
68% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Vanilla Cookys
Windows
The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7%, Choices Matter 5.8%
- #26 Constant Pressure
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ganduspl
Windows
After a nuclear disaster, you must take cover in an abandoned bunker. Play with friends, gather supplies by day and fight fearsome creatures by night.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.6%
- #27 SGS Ashes of Dawn
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Ashes of Dawn 2040: a unique hybrid of turn-based post-apocalyptic wargame and board game. Total war in a irradiated Europe. NARDO (heir to NATO) against VARPAC (heir to the Warsaw Pact) with the choice of civilization or chaos. Simple to play but complex to master.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 55% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Atmospheric 3.3%
- #28 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
66% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 63.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Realistic 5.3%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #29 Isolate ME!
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: LBeastwood
Windows
An exciting survival game with roguelike elements in which you have to play as a police officer in a city engulfed by a pandemic, look for infected people and isolate them, manage the budget and hire police officers, set up vaccination centers and propaganda stands.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 66.6% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Tactical 7.6%, Casual 5.8%, Survival 4.7%
- #30 The Last Survivor
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HeFei Potato
Windows
The Last Survivor is a serious, narrative-driven visual novel set in a sudden zombie apocalypse. You play as an ordinary high school student forced to make difficult decisions as the world collapses. Every choice matters, and mistakes carry irreversible consequences.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 8.7%, 2D 2.2%
- #31 Dead Hourz
66% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Raycand Games
Windows
"Dead Hourz" is a thrilling survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world. In a land ravaged by zombies, bandits, and scarcity, you must protect your family by gathering resources and making tough choices.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 9.6%, Simulation 8.6%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #32 Colonies of The Remnant
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cat Soul StudiosPub: Ultimate Publishing
Windows
In a post-apocalyptic world, found and develop your own colony under the threat of the undead. Be cautious against enemy colonies or form alliances. Engage in action-fueled battles against the undead and other humans using FPS or TPS game modes. Formulate your strategy and survive!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 8.9%, Realistic 6.8%
- #33 Safe House
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mike Hvll
Windows
Survive the plague. Manage a Safe House. Decide who to trust. A cinematic, story-driven psychological horror with multiple endings.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Realistic 8.5%, Survival 7.6%
- #34 Overland
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 557 reviews2019
Dev: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.
Why similar: Turn-Based 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Survival 12.2%, Tactical 6.5%
- #35 Wanna Survive
65% matchVery Positive93% of 301 reviews2019
Dev: PINIX
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.
Why similar: Tactical 19.9%, Turn-Based 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Difficult 13.7%
- #36 Virus Lab
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Virus Lab
Windows
Virus Lab is a first-person simulation where you run a high-security research facility. Handle dangerous samples, manage scientists and equipment, prevent containment breaches, and push research forward under constant pressure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.7% ★, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Realistic 7.8%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #37 The Prepper
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ruby Moon Games
Windows
The Prepper is a turn-based survival management game where you manage a bunker, ration supplies, and make tough choices to keep your survivors alive through a collapsing world. Every decision matters—how long can you survive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%
- #38 Total City Defence
65% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Imprint Gaming
Windows
Total City Defense is a zombie themed survival game where you must complete each level to progress. Using the mouse and keyboard you control various units, including Troops, Turrets and Drones to make your way through each level rescuing civilians, VIPS and destroying enemy strong holds.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Tactical 7.4%, Survival 3.4%
- #39 Infection
65% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Fullar
Windows
Virus is spreading in this world, try to survive as long as possible. Avoid other or try to approach and cure them?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71.8% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 9.8%, Casual 2.3%, 2D 1.9%
- #40 War Of The Zombie
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2018
Dev: Van der Veer Games
Windows · Mac
War of the Zombie brings together the best of turn-based simulation and real-time strategic gameplay action across the entire world at the very start of a mysterious undead outbreak.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 73% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 12.6%
- #41 Mittelborg: City of Mages
65% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: Armatur GamesPub: Asterion Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?
Why similar: Turn-Based 21%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Tactical 10.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #42 Bio Inc. Redemption
64% matchVery Positive88% of 2,787 reviews2018
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Difficult 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Strategy 7.1%
- #43 SNOW HELL
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SURVGAME
Windows
The crash is just the beginning. Trapped in the frozen hell of Siberia, you must fight for every single day. Use the wreckage, build shelter, find food, and face deadly threats. Rescue may never come – how long can you survive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.3% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Realistic 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Survival 6.3%
- #44 Hours 2–4: Dead City Protocol
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NateProductionsInc
Windows
When the City Burns, the Truth Hides in the Dark. Hours 2–4: Dead City Protocol is a Third-Person Tactical Shooter where Cops, SWAT, & National Guard fight a Spreading Outbreak—and Government Forces sent to erase it. Survive Early Hours of Outbreak, ambushes, and a lethal cover-up.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.2% ★, Tactical 14.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9%, Atmospheric 5.1%
- #45 Pathogen-病原体
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2019
Dev: 折翼的红领巾
Windows
"Pathogen" is a STG game base on real human body with little Rogue-Like element. You can propagate evolve infect and hide as different kinds of pathogens in human body.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 83.3% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Indie 3%
- #46 Post-Apo Builder
62% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Tactical 4.9%
- #47 Alien Madness
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leolit Games
Windows
Oh no! Humans stole your eggs! As the Alien mama, you're on a mission to make those egg-snatchers regret their dinner choices. You've got the power to control their brains and turn them against each other. We are going to make them do the craziest things, right mama?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Strategy 11%, Tactical 9.7%, Indie 2.1%
- #48 Extinction Day
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows · Linux
Extinction Day is a doomsday simulator where you wipe out humanity using disasters, diseases, wars, and other catastrophic events. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophes for maximum destruction, and crush humanity's efforts to survive in this game of world-ending mayhem.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Resource Management 9.2%, Difficult 9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #49 Breach & Clear
63% matchVery Positive82% of 2,423 reviews2014
Dev: Mighty Rabbit StudiosPub: Gun Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
Why similar: Tactical 33.3%, Strategy 20.1%, Turn-Based 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 8.4%
- #50 Survivor's Notes
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock diverse story branches and endings. When a doomsday-dreaming civilian meets an apocalypse survivor, time, memory and fate intertwine. They seek truth in a crumbling city, closing in on a buried answer.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 8.6%, Simulation 6.9%, Choices Matter 5.6%
- #51 Pandemic Crisis
63% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Thor Gaming
Windows
In the event of a global pandemic, would your first priority be preserving lives or saving the economy?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.4% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%, 2D 3.8%
- #52 Dyin To Live
62% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Roguedolike
Windows
A contagious puzzle game where death is the only way to live! Use infectious abilities to expand your virus hive mind. But spread carefully, because each ability results in your host’s death! Master your deadly skills so you can live another day.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 75% ★, Strategy 18%, 2D 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Indie 1.2%
- #53 Moonlit Nights
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Umut Bora
Windows · Mac · Linux
Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world. Form raiding parties and send them out to gather supplies, deal with mysterious visitors, and make difficult choices. How many days can you survive, or can you be freed and return to your normal life? Make your choice wisely.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 67.5% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Survival 5.3%, 2D 3.2%
- #54 Genesia Legacy: Ultimate Domain
63% matchMixed67% of 75 reviews2017
Dev: Thomas ZIGHEM
Windows
Successor of "old school" games, Genesia Legacy is a challenging and punitive turn-based strategy game, easy to learn but hard to master.
Why similar: Strategy 21.3%, Turn-Based 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Difficult 11.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #55 The Crawling Dead
60% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Quinton Van Lom
Windows
Design, deploy, and manage the release of parasitic wasps to save a national park from invasive insect pests. Harness the power of nature’s most efficient killers to strike back at the invaders and turn them into The Crawling Dead!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 69.4% ★, Strategy 9%, Difficult 8.8%, Simulation 6.2%, Choices Matter 3.5%
- #56 Survival Instinct
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wenay Studio
Windows
You are the lucky one (or not) who managed to survive the most powerful solar flare in history and then plunge headlong into the permafrost. Can you adapt to the new conditions on Earth without losing your sanity and retaining your humanity?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Tactical 12%, Difficult 10.5%, Realistic 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #57 Embers of the Night
59% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 巨浪游戏
Windows
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 75.2% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%, 2D 1.8%
- #58 After Inc: Revival
58% matchVery Positive80% of 1,159 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 53.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6.7%