Games Like DeadOS

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 68.9% ★, Zombies 13%, Simulation 5.5%, Sandbox 5%, Survival 4%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a city-wide outbreak using real-world map data for a highly immersive simulation experience.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 44.1%, Survival 23.7%, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep, systemic zombie survival simulation with unmatched attention to detail.

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 84.8% ★, Simulation 7%, Zombies 4.3%, Indie 1.9%, Sandbox 1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic spread and evolution of an outbreak, mirroring the simulation aspect of DeadOS.

Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Why similar: Zombies 29.4%, Gore 26.6%, Sandbox 18.8%, Survival 12.2%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that tasks you with containing a massive zombie outbreak in a sandbox city environment.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 46.7%, Sandbox 29.4%, Survival 20.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled level of survival simulation complexity that mirrors the sandbox freedom of DeadOS.

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: Sandbox 32.7%, Artificial Intelligence 25.2%, Simulation 23.9%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: While not strictly zombies, its minimalist sandbox simulation allows for the creation and destruction of civilizations in a way that feels very similar to DeadOS.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 39.7%, Simulation 36%, Survival 24.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes community management and systemic interactions within a zombie-infested world.

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.9% ★, Zombies 12.3%, Sandbox 6.7%, Simulation 6.3%, Survival 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategic city management with the desperate survival of a zombie apocalypse.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Zombies 34.9%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Procedural Generation 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust voxel-based sandbox environment where you can build, destroy, and survive against waves of zombies.

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Zombies 60.7%, Gore 25.7%, Indie 9.8%, Survival 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique outbreak simulator where you control the horde, focusing on the spread and chaos of the infection.

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 21.4%, Violent 14.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Gore 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the sandbox survival experience, requiring you to manage resources and build defenses against the undead.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 50.1%, Sandbox 24.4%, Survival 22.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that captures the gritty, sandbox feel of navigating an urban zombie apocalypse.

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Why similar: Zombies 48.5%, Sandbox 26.4%, Survival 21.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a minimalist, low-poly aesthetic with a focus on sandbox survival and base building.

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 87.8% ★, Zombies 4.5%, Simulation 4.5%, Indie 2%, Survival 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct, simulation-focused game that lets you unleash and manage a zombie outbreak.

A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 64.6% ★, Simulation 7.3%, Zombies 7.1%, Violent 5.9%, Gore 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the experimental side of outbreak scenarios, allowing for various sandbox configurations.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 41.6%, Sandbox 25.1%, Survival 19.7%, Indie 10.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with a distinct minimalist style that emphasizes crafting and exploration.

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 73.1% ★, Gore 9%, Zombies 5.4%, Simulation 5.1%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the medical and spread simulation aspects of a pathogen, similar to the outbreak-sim genre.

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 50.5%, Indie 31.8%, Survival 15.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes simulation elements and strategic decision-making.

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Violent 24.2%, Zombies 19.7%, Gore 18.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist survival management game that challenges you to endure the apocalypse with limited resources.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 41.2%, Violent 29%, Survival 16.5%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grim reality of surviving in a world where the infection is inevitable.

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Simulation 20.2%, Violent 16.7%, Gore 12.6%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival simulation that captures the early-access, indie feel of managing a character through an outbreak.

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 91.5% ★, Simulation 4.7%, Survival 2.6%, Indie 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on the logistical challenge of containing a global outbreak.

Raw, aggressive hunger - there's nothing like being a Zombie when you want to do some damage! Now you can control your own horde of zombies! Mayhem has never tasted so good . . .

Why similar: Zombies 78.8%, Indie 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that lets you command a zombie horde, focusing on the mechanics of the outbreak itself.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.9%, Zombies 36.3%, Survival 26.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox horror game that tasks you with investigating and surviving on an island plagued by an outbreak.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 61.6%, Survival 27.7%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down action with base building and defense mechanics in a post-apocalyptic setting.

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 38%, Sandbox 22.3%, Simulation 20.6%, Survival 16.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival simulation that focuses on the technical details of surviving a zombie-filled world.

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 78.3% ★, Gore 9%, Simulation 7.1%, Zombies 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A global-scale strategy simulation that focuses on managing the response to a worldwide zombie outbreak.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 64.9%, Indie 12.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Survival 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist survival management game that captures the desperate tone of a zombie outbreak.

A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?

Why similar: Zombies 61.9%, Survival 23%, Stylized 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base building and managing the threat of the undead.

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 83.3% ★, Zombies 10.2%, Simulation 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 91.9% ★, Procedural Generation 4%, Simulation 3.7%, Indie 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Kill all the damn zombies in different game modes!

Why similar: Violent 32.7%, Gore 26.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Zombies 12.8%, Indie 5.6%

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.

Why similar: Gore 34.8%, Sandbox 25.8%, Violent 22.4%, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Sandbox 19.2%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Simulation 15.8%, Survival 14.3%

Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!

Why similar: Zombies 26.6%, Violent 22.4%, Gore 22.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Indie 9.1%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 61.1%, Survival 34.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

They are coming! Ravenous, insatiable, and absolutely unstoppable zombies, a Wunderwaffe that went horribly wrong. It’s up to you to usher in the age of the zombie, by munching on every brain in sight! Build up a horde, dodge enemy weapons, and gnaw a mark on human history!

Why similar: Gore 42.1%, Zombies 42%, Survival 11%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Stylized 2.1%

End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 87.2% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 5.4%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 41%, Indie 28.3%, Simulation 17%, Survival 7.2%, Sandbox 6.5%

A physics sandbox simulation game about constructing and demolishing structures. If you like destroying stuff or just mess around, then this game is for you!

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 69.6% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Procedural Generation 6%, Minimalist 3.1%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 38.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 17.4%, Simulation 16.5%, Stylized 6%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Simulation 23.8%, Procedural Generation 19.8%, Survival 18.5%, Indie 9.5%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue!

Why similar: Zombies 39.6%, Simulation 27.6%, Sandbox 20.4%, Stylized 9.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 37.4%, Gore 21.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 17.1%, Indie 4.4%

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 66.1% ★, Zombies 13.7%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 6.3%, Survival 6.2%

A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Why similar: Zombies 34.8%, Sandbox 27.3%, Survival 20.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 62.5%, Survival 21.3%, Indie 12.3%, Singleplayer 3.9%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Zombies 42.7%, Survival 22.2%, Sandbox 18%, Simulation 17.1%

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 83.3% ★, Zombies 8.3%, Simulation 4.4%, Indie 2.2%, Survival 1.3%

Survive like a God in this inspiring survival simulation game.

Why similar: Simulation 38%, Zombies 32.2%, Indie 15.8%, Survival 14%

From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...

Why similar: Zombies 55.5%, Simulation 36.4%, Survival 8.1%

GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!

Why similar: Violent 39.8%, Gore 35.1%, Sandbox 18%, Stylized 7.2%

In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA. Learn how to craft weapons, tools and fight against the living and the dead to survive in this cruel, rotting world.

Why similar: Simulation 52.2%, Violent 24.8%, Indie 22.9%

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.4%, Procedural Generation 32.5%, Simulation 32%

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 89% ★, Simulation 5.9%, Survival 3.3%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%

A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.

Why similar: Zombies 43.8%, Simulation 31.8%, Survival 20.6%, Singleplayer 3.8%

The Day Of Survival Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world where every decision is crucial. "The Day Of Survival" is a thrilling survival game that challenges players to explore a harsh, unforgiving landscape filled with zombies and enemy soldiers.

Why similar: Zombies 59.2%, Survival 32.7%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 63.1%, Survival 22.5%, Sandbox 5.6%, Simulation 3.8%, Indie 3.6%

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 36.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Survival 12.9%, Violent 12.4%, Gore 10.2%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 55%, Survival 22.9%, Procedural Generation 19.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%