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Games Like COVID: The Outbreak

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Singleplayer, Indie.

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COVID: The Outbreak is a real-time strategy game in which you play the role of a global organization that has to deal with a global pandemic. Issue decrees, manage resources, develop projects, and construct buildings. A race for the vaccine begins!

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 69% — of 95 reviews
Released: 2020-05-29
Developer: Jujubee S.A.
Publisher: Salient Games
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 53.2 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 90%

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  1. #1 Covid Simulator
    97% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2022
    Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
    Windows

    COVID SIMULATOR is an outbreak simulation that visualizes how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox where you can add (or remove) Covid mandates and see what happens! Create your workplace, enact your mandates, and roll the dice with your workers.

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 64.5%, Education 17.2%, Management 9.4%, Dystopian 6%, Simulation 2.4%

  2. #2 中国战疫
    96% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2022
    Dev: 不吃蛋黄
    Windows

    《中国战疫》是一款科普防疫知识的模拟经营类游戏,玩家将临危受命地前往不同地区进行疫情控制,展示中国防疫的成功经验,最终达成疫情控制和经济稳定的双赢。

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.3%, Politics 11%, RTS 10.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 4.9%

  3. #3 Realpolitiks
    96% matchMixed62% of 1,232 reviews2017
    Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.8%, Real-Time 20.7%, Strategy 17.7%, Politics 16.7%, Simulation 2.3%

  4. #4 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
    94% 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 66%, Strategy 9.6%, Dystopian 7.6%, Resource Management 4.3%, Management 3.4%

  5. #5 Quarantine
    95% 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 83.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 4%, Indie 1.7%

  6. #6 Plague Inc: Evolved
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 59,582 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 77.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%

  7. #7 Z-Collapse
    93% matchMostly Positive77% of 98 reviews2022
    Dev: Pok&Co
    Windows

    Inspired by Max Brooks' World War Z novel, Z-Collapse takes you into a worldwide zombie apocalypse. As leader of the government of your choosing, make sure your country survives! Dramatic decisions are ahead of you. How do you manage them?

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40.4%, Grand Strategy 27%, RTS 9.9%, Politics 6.7%, Strategy 5.5%

  8. #8 Bio Inc. Redemption
    91% matchVery Positive88% of 2,788 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 55.7%, Education 12.5%, RTS 10%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 6.7%

  9. #9 Post-Apo Builder
    91% 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 45.1%, Grand Strategy 20.5%, RTS 11.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Management 5.7%

  10. #10 Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 645 reviews2025
    Dev: Nostalgames
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 37%, Politics 16.4%, Political 16%, Dystopian 13.3%, Strategy 8.8%

  11. #11 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
    90% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,248 reviews2014
    Dev: BattleGoat Studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.1%, RTS 19.3%, Politics 11.5%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 4.5%

  12. #12 Orbi Universo II
    88% matchVery Positive82% of 71 reviews2025
    Dev: Orbi Universo Team
    Windows · Linux

    Guide your very own civilization's destiny in this abstract strategy sim. Master a complex node system, overcome unique challenges, and evolve your society from humble beginnings to the mastery of the atom. Can your civilization *really* withstand the test of time?

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.2%, Abstract 10.5%, RTS 10.5%, Management 10.3%, Politics 9.9%

  13. #13 Realpolitiks II
    89% matchMixed46% of 666 reviews2021
    Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Lead your people to glory and write a new chapter of history in Realpolitiks II, a real-time grand strategy game where you lead any contemporary nation in an attempt to secure world dominance.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Political 12.4%, Politics 12.1%, Simulation 7.7%

  14. #14 AfterWar
    87% matchMostly Positive73% of 141 reviews2023
    Dev: Dmytro Lumen
    Windows

    AfterWar is a strategy about the world in 2028

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.2%, Political 18.3%, RTS 13%, Politics 12.5%, Management 8.2%

  15. #15 Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
    86% matchMixed49% of 196 reviews2025
    Dev: Eversim
    Windows

    The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4%, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Political 11%, Politics 6.9%

  16. #16 Infection Free Zone
    85% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
    Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 54.7%, RTS 13.6%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Minimalist 5%

  17. #17 Democracy 4
    86% matchVery Positive82% of 6,264 reviews2022
    Dev: Positech Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4%, Political 16.3%, Politics 16.1%, Education 10.9%, Management 9.6%

  18. #18 Project AURA
    84% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
    Dev: Nexcentric Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

    Why similar: Resource Management 28.4%, Strategy 25.8%, Management 23.2%, Simulation 13%, Indie 8.1%

  19. #19 Supreme Ruler 1936
    84% matchMostly Positive74% of 303 reviews2014
    Dev: BattleGoat Studios
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history. Play massive campaigns as one of the principal nations, set-piece scenarios of famous battles, or set your own victory condition and play as any nation in the world in Sandbox mode.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.3%, Real-Time 21.9%, RTS 12.7%, Politics 10.6%, Strategy 8%

  20. #20 Power to the People
    82% matchVery Positive82% of 543 reviews2022
    Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

    Why similar: Resource Management 33.4%, Management 30.6%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 10%, 3D 6.8%

  21. #21 War Of The Zombie
    83% 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 63.5%, Real-Time 20.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 5.5%

  22. #22 Half-Earth Socialism
    81% matchVery Positive83% of 961 reviews2022
    Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.2%, Education 16.1%, Dystopian 12.5%, Political 10.5%, Politics 8.1%

  23. #23 Evil Labs
    82% 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 82.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 4.9%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%

  24. #24 The Fabulous Fear Machine
    79% 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 72.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 6.1%, Top-Down 5.3%, Simulation 4.3%

  25. #25 Orbi Universo
    81% matchMostly Positive72% of 260 reviews2020
    Dev: Orbi Universo Team
    Windows

    Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.2%, RTS 14%, Abstract 11.7%, Management 11.7%, Politics 9.9%

  26. #26 Frostpunk
    78% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

    Why similar: Resource Management 42.7%, Strategy 25.9%, Management 13%, RTS 11.8%, Simulation 5.3%

  27. #27 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
    76% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
    Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

    Why similar: Resource Management 39.4%, Management 28.8%, Simulation 17.3%, 3D 10.8%, Singleplayer 3.7%

  28. #28 Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
    79% matchMostly Negative39% of 279 reviews2025
    Dev: JujubeePub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.9%, Political 19.5%, Politics 13.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.2%

  29. #29 The Last Haven
    77% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
    Dev: Thunder Devs.
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

    Why similar: Strategy 34.2%, RTS 20.6%, Resource Management 18.2%, Indie 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%

  30. #30 Undead Inc.
    78% matchMostly Negative34% of 174 reviews2024
    Dev: Rightsized GamesPub: Team17
    Windows

    Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical Corporation. Build, manage staff, conduct research, and trade in both cutting edge medical treatments and bleeding edge bioweapons.

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.3%

  31. #31 World Warfare & Economics
    76% matchMixed63% of 666 reviews2023
    Dev: Okron Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!

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  32. #32 Dummynation
    73% matchVery Positive88% of 2,951 reviews2022
    Dev: Alejandro Hernández Ferrero
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.2%, RTS 13.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 7.6%

  33. #33 Oxygen
    74% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Resource Management 33.9%, Strategy 23%, Management 18.2%, Simulation 11.6%, 3D 8.2%

  34. #34 Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,375 reviews2019
    Dev: Mi-Clos StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.4%, Politics 18.2%, Political 15.8%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.2%

  35. #35 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 83.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 3.9%, Indie 3.1%, Survival Horror 1.8%

  36. #36 Rebel Inc: Escalation
    72% matchVery Positive82% of 7,070 reviews2021
    Dev: Ndemic CreationsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 60.7%, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

  37. #37 Fate of the World
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 448 reviews2011
    Dev: Red RedemptionPub: Soothsayer Games
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%

    Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...

    Why similar: Political 25.7%, Strategy 21.9%, Education 18.7%, Politics 17.2%, Simulation 10.5%

  38. #38 War Hospital
    73% matchMixed60% of 1,201 reviews2024
    Dev: Brave Lamb Studio S.A.Pub: Nacon
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 48.1%, RTS 17.7%, Management 13%, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 7.5%

  39. #39 Countryballs Conquest
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 85 reviews2025
    Dev: Indenial Games
    Windows

    Lead your country through the Victorian age, expand your empire as you go head to head with the great powers of the world.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 56.7%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 12.3%, RTS 8.5%, Simulation 6.1%

  40. #40 Simulator of Ukraine 1991
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 219 reviews2024
    Dev: Almost Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.4%, Strategy 18.7%, RTS 11.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Top-Down 5.4%

  41. #41 Power & Revolution 2020 Edition
    73% matchMixed62% of 849 reviews2020
    Dev: Eversim
    Windows · Mac

    The new version of Geopolitical Simulator 4, the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and restart the economy, participate in the US elections or engage in lightning wars with new 2020 scenarios.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 57.2%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 7%, Top-Down 7%

  42. #42 Calyx
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio 568
    Windows

    A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.4%, RTS 13.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 6.9%

  43. #43 Organs Please
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
    Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

    Why similar: Dystopian 22.5%, Political 19.6%, Politics 15.8%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 11.1%

  44. #44 Pandemic Train
    72% matchMixed57% of 241 reviews2023
    Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
    Windows

    In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

    Why similar: Strategy 52.3%, Simulation 24.3%, Indie 17.3%, Singleplayer 6%

  45. #45 Rabiez: Epidemic
    74% matchMixed44% of 238 reviews2016
    Dev: Sekerin ProductionsPub: New Reality Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Real-time combat in the zombie apocalypse! Guide your survivors through hordes of the infected to escape the epicentre of infection!

    Why similar: Indie 54.8%, Strategy 45.2%

  46. #46 Trade Conquest
    70% matchMostly Positive70% of 71 reviews2024
    Dev: GrandPaw Games
    Windows

    Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.2%, Politics 13.4%, Political 12.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, RTS 9.4%

  47. #47 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 reviews2025
    Dev: Exabyte Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

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  48. #48 Counter Terrorist Agency
    71% matchMixed45% of 538 reviews2019
    Dev: Play2ChillPub: Games Operators
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Counter Terrorist Agency lets you fight international terrorism and prevent attacks all over the world. Use modern invigilation techniques, discover connections, interrogate suspects, eliminate threats and dismantle terrorist networks.

    Why similar: Real-Time 41.8%, Strategy 17.6%, Management 14.2%, Political 9.3%, Simulation 9.2%

  49. #49 4th Generation Warfare
    70% matchMixed56% of 163 reviews2022
    Dev: Eversim
    Windows

    As the leader of a nation, dispatch and control your team of characters all around the world to destabilize your enemies and establish your supremacy. All methods are fair game: hacking, sabotage, political interference, military strikes, corruption, treachery, assassinations, data theft…

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.5%, Political 16.3%, RTS 14.2%, Politics 12.3%, Resource Management 8%

  50. #50 Rebirth evolution
    68% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
    Dev: 异界游网络科技
    Windows

    2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

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  51. #51 Infectious
    69% matchMixed65% of 80 reviews2020
    Dev: Ziggy Makes Games
    Windows

    Play as a lethal virus infecting various organs in your host's body while trying to outsmart the immune cells that seek to eliminate you and your kind. Generate clones and watch them propagate, infecting cells and taking down bosses.

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 84.7%, Survival Horror 7.6%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

  52. #52 Marble Age: Remastered
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 388 reviews2020
    Dev: Clarus Victoria
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

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  53. #53 Politics The Game
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 2,186 reviews2025
    Dev: Simplicity Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.

    Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.8%, Politics 17.8%, Political 15.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 4.8%

  54. #54 SCP Strategy
    66% matchVery Positive80% of 579 reviews2022
    Dev: LUXO InteractivePub: LUK KUS SOFT
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

    Why similar: Management 33.8%, Strategy 29.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Top-Down 13.3%, 3D 8.3%

  55. #55 Supreme Ruler 2030
    66% matchMixed64% of 536 reviews2023
    Dev: BattleGoat Studios
    Windows

    Rise to power as any modern day country in a realistic military, political and economic simulation. Command your country's diplomacy, espionage, and resource management to strengthen your position. Use real-time tactical control of your military to fortify your place as the Supreme Ruler.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.5%, Political 17.5%, RTS 14%, Politics 10.9%, Management 7.6%

  56. #56 First Strike
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,985 reviews2017
    Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.

    Why similar: RTS 30.4%, Political 29.1%, Strategy 16.6%, Top-Down 9.7%, Simulation 8%

  57. #57 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    66% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    Why similar: Resource Management 31.6%, Strategy 25.9%, Management 22.5%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 5.4%

  58. #58 Imagine Earth
    65% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
    Dev: Serious Bros.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 49.1%, RTS 17.9%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Top-Down 8.4%

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