Games Like Infectonator 3: Apocalypse

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 46.1%, Villain Protagonist 20.7% ★, Strategy 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the same core premise of managing a zombie horde to infect a population through strategic puzzle-solving and pixel-art chaos.

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 65% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Zombies 9.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Tactical 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate outbreak simulation experience where you must evolve a pathogen to wipe out humanity, mirroring the strategic goals of the seed game.

Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 52.8% ★, Zombies 28.1%, Dark Humor 6.4%, Funny 4.2%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to command an army of the undead as a necromancer, focusing on the villain-protagonist aspect of building and leading a horde.

Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 36.7% ★, Villain Protagonist 31.2% ★, Zombies 23.7%, Funny 5.2%, Action 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: You play as the undead protagonist in this campy, violent action game that perfectly captures the humor and theme of being the zombie threat.

Swarm the City: Zombie Evolved is a villain protagonist real-time strategy game. You will play as the King of the Dead and rule the world once again by creating zombie legions and destroying human cities. As the King of the Dead, you can infect humans, turn them into zombies and rule the world!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 36% ★, Zombies 24.9%, Difficult 11%, Strategy 6.5%, Tactical 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This real-time strategy game puts you in control of a zombie swarm tasked with consuming cities, matching the core gameplay loop of the seed game.

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 18.4% ★, Dark Humor 17.9%, Difficult 17.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This resource management game features dark humor and a villainous protagonist theme where you exploit humans for your own survival.

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Zombies 51.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Roguelike 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a necromancer building an army of undead from body parts, emphasizing the strategic management of zombie units.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 46.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Difficult 8.2%, Comedy 7.4%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This action-roguelike features charming pixel art and a humorous take on the zombie apocalypse, focusing on the chaos of survival.

"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 48.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: While a different genre, this related title keeps the zombie theme and pixel-art style while focusing on the survival management of a group.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 77.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13%, Indie 4.6%, Action 3.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: As a reverse-horror game, you play as an amorphous creature consuming humans, providing that satisfying feeling of being the monster in the scenario.

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 49.8% ★, Zombies 24.9%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy colony simulator that tasks you with managing survivors during a zombie apocalypse, offering deep tactical decision-making.

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: Simulation 44.3%, Pixel Graphics 43.3%, Indie 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox environment where you can trigger various disasters and outbreaks to watch the chaos unfold, similar to the simulation aspect of the seed game.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Dark Humor 9.5%, Difficult 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a villain-protagonist who must strategically eliminate party-goers, sharing the dark humor and top-down tactical feel of the seed game.

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 81.1% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Indie 3%, Funny 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a laboratory that creates and releases viruses, focusing on the simulation and outbreak-management aspects of the seed game.

Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 30.6% ★, Zombies 21.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Dark Humor 8.4%, Tactical 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you raise the dead to fight for you, emphasizing the tactical deployment of zombie units.

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 60.8% ★, Zombies 12.7%, Difficult 8.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This medical simulation game allows you to play as the disease, focusing on the strategic destruction of a human host.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Dark Humor 48.3%, Strategy 19.4%, Funny 17%, Singleplayer 8.5%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines management and action with a dark, humorous theme where you lead a cult, fitting the villainous management vibe.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 58.7% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Funny 8.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A spiritual successor to dungeon management games, it lets you play as the evil overlord building a base to defeat heroes.

Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.4% ★, Zombies 25.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Survival 5.9%, Funny 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-stealth game where you play as a zombie trying to infect others, focusing on the perspective of the undead.

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Memes 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Funny 14.8%, Simulation 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game features dark humor and pixel art as you work as a reaper, matching the morbid tone of the seed game.

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 60% ★, Villain Protagonist 12.9% ★, Difficult 8.1%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation game where you spread fear and legends, capturing the manipulative and villainous spirit of the seed game.

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Simulation 21.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Funny 17.9%, Memes 14.1%, Comedy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: The physics-based chaos and unit-deployment strategy provide a similar sense of watching large-scale, humorous destruction unfold.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 41.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Difficult 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite strategy game with pixel art that focuses on managing a group of survivors during a zombie apocalypse.

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 76.7% ★, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 5.1%, Tactical 3.5%, Survival 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game focused on containing or spreading outbreaks, offering a more tactical take on the simulation genre.

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Strategy 56.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 13.8%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Survival 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage defenses against an encroaching, fluid-like enemy, providing a unique strategic challenge similar to managing an outbreak.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Strategy 28.2%, Simulation 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, Survival 19.2%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more defensive, its beautiful pixel art and strategic resource management offer a similar satisfying loop of building and expanding.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 37.3%, Simulation 24.1%, Dark Humor 24%, Indie 9.3%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim features dark humor and a morbid theme, focusing on the business of death in a pixelated world.

They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.

Why similar: Zombies 46.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action game that focuses on the sheer volume of zombies, capturing the intensity of a massive outbreak.

Pick your faction, Monster, strategy, and find out who gets to become King of the Undead!

Why similar: Zombies 51.2%, Strategy 29.1%, Indie 11.5%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game where you control zombie squads to fight for dominance, fitting the villain-protagonist theme.

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 66.8%, Strategy 24%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS allows you to command a zombie horde, focusing on the strategic deployment of units to overwhelm human defenses.

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

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.6% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 4.6%, Dark Humor 4.2%

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 83.7% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Survival 4.3%, Indie 2%, Action 1.6%

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 49.8% ★, Zombies 26.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%, Simulation 5.1%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 63.3% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 10.9%, Memes 4.5%, Funny 2.5%

Face massive zombie swarms in this funny post-apocalyptic tactical sandbox! Do you know what it's like to be surrounded by 100,000 zombies? Well, you're about to find out!

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Tactical 7.2%, Indie 6.9%

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 73.2% ★, Zombies 10.6%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 4.8%, Indie 2.4%

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: Villain Protagonist 38.3% ★, Zombies 36%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 4.6%

Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Soon you'll be able to eat the entire planet!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 48.9% ★, Funny 9.1%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8%, Comedy 6.4%

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 31.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Strategy 12%, Difficult 11.3%, Simulation 8.8%

"Zombie Party" is an anti-superhero-themed strategy game. You need to play the role of a chaotic ability user GRAVEDIGGER, and use your super power to summon the zombie army to destroy the land that is governed by the government and the PARLIAMENT OF FIVE, The established order of power.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.5% ★, Zombies 30.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%

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 81.8% ★, Dark Humor 9.7%, Simulation 4.2%, Pixel Graphics 3%, Casual 0.6%

Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.1%, Tactical 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Survival 9%

As a powerful necromancer you have the ability to raise the dead and command them in battle. With each victory, your army will grow stronger and your city will become more powerful. Undead Horde 2 is an action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Rise from the crypt and rebuild!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 43.3% ★, Zombies 28.7%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Action 3.1%

Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33.3%, Funny 28.7%, Roguelike 26%, Action 12.1%

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 55.2%, Strategy 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Indie 5.6%

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.9% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 15.8%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 50.6% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Dark Humor 12%, Indie 9.8%, Comedy 6.8%

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.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49% ★, Zombies 22.4%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6%, Survival 5.5%

Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

Why similar: Strategy 25.7%, Dark Humor 25%, Villain Protagonist 18.3% ★, Comedy 16.3%, Indie 10.4%

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 85.5% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Post-apocalyptic 4.3%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.3% ★, Dark Humor 16.6%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!

Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Funny 20.8%, Indie 14.9%, Roguelike 12.7%, Action 11.5%

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.3% ★, Dark Humor 10.2%, Difficult 10%, Strategy 6.3%, Funny 4.5%

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 60.7% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Difficult 7.5%, Indie 7.1%, Roguelike 6%

Necronator: Dead Wrong is a deck-building roguelike with an RTS twist. Build a powerful deck. Collect and deploy undead units and raise a unique army. Master each commander’s playstyle and conquer the world. Change the game with rule-bending relics. Unlock new decks and do it all again.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 58.4% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Funny 9.3%, Roguelike 5.4%

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 68.8% ★, Zombies 8.1%, Dark Humor 5.5%, Simulation 4.8%, Survival 4.2%