- #1 Last Rail
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LunaGames
Windows · Linux
Lead a train carrying the last survivors of humanity across a frozen world. Manage resources, explore abandoned locations, and make difficult decisions that will determine the future of Convoy 07.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%, 2D 2.3%
- #2 The Last Few
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DroniX Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage a base of survivors during the zombie apocalypse. Send squads on sorties on a real map of any city in the world, make decisions via radio when they get into trouble and remember: you are powerless outside the radio range. Build modules, defend the perimeter and don't let the base die.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, Zombies 9.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%
- #3 Total City Defence
96% 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 48.5% ★, Colony Sim 23%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 5.2%
- #4 Warranted Humanity
95% 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 45.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Zombies 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #5 ApocalypseHQ
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: GodwishGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a survivor headquarters after the zombie outbreak in this turn-based management strategy game, where each turn represents one day. Allocate scarce people and supplies, restore territories and infrastructure, and expand through research and high-risk external operations.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Zombies 5.7%, Survival 4.6%
- #6 Zombie Colony
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.8% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Zombies 15.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 4%
- #7 Infect and Destroy
94% 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 79% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Zombies 8.4%, Survival 2.6%, Indie 1.2%
- #8 Plague Inc: Evolved
92% matchVery Positive94% of 65,987 reviews2016
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 70.9% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Zombies 7.5%, Post-apocalyptic 2.8%, Survival 1.2%
- #9 40 Days [四十天]
91% matchMixed54% of 13 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 88.2% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 1.3%, Management 1.2%
- #10 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
90% matchMixed68% of 439 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 56.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 5.9%, Management 1.2%
- #11 Trojan Inc.
91% 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 87.6% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 1.5%
- #12 Morvus
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mohiko Games
Windows
Your monastery is the last hope for those with nowhere else to go. Supplies are running out. You cannot save everyone. Every day, you decide who to help and try to save not only their lives but your own soul.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.2% ★, Colony Sim 29.6%, Strategy 13%, Survival 2.8%, Management 1.6%
- #13 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,379 reviews2018
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 66.8% ★, Zombies 14%, Strategy 8.1%, Dark Humor 4.6%, Survival 2.6%
- #14 Constant Pressure
88% 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 49.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 8%
- #15 After Inc: Revival
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,512 reviews2026
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.4%, Zombies 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Strategy 5.9%
- #16 Quarantine
87% matchMixed60% of 437 reviews2017
Dev: SproingPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 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 80.6% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Survival 5.9%, Indie 0.7%
- #17 Evil Labs
86% matchMixed70% of 82 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 87.5% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 1.5%
- #18 Marked
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis Rambaud
Windows · Mac
In a world ravaged by climate collapse, flee a ruthless mafia alongside fellow survivors in this cooperative turn-based strategy game: manage hunger, thirst and resources while journeying together toward safety.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71.1% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, 2D 3.2%, Choices Matter 3%
- #19 Zombie Survival
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Dragon Games Inc.
Windows
The theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, Zombies 9.9%, Survival 5%, Exploration 4.7%
- #20 Loot And Defend
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ODale StudiosPub: ODale Studios
Windows
A short, relaxing incremental game about slaughtering millions of attacking zombies. Take a load off, the end of the world doesn't have to be stressful.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.8% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, Zombies 11.8%, Strategy 8%, Relaxing 2.4%
- #21 60 Seconds!
83% matchVery Positive85% of 11,700 reviews2015
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.8% ★, Dark Comedy 10.5%, Text-Based 9.4%, Dark Humor 7%, Exploration 6.3%
- #22 DeadOS
82% matchVery Positive99% of 183 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 89.3% ★, Zombies 6.9%, Survival 2.6%, Indie 1.1%
- #23 Eco Park
82% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: LunaBrod
Windows
Eco Park is a game about ecology and lo-fi hip-hop. Manage a dynamic ecosystem with creatures eating, breeding, and dying in real time. You’ll need to introduce species to increase biodiversity. Keep population sizes under control, or one species might extinguish another.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.9% ★, Colony Sim 29.4%, Strategy 9.7%
- #24 WORMWOOD
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ignis Sanat
Windows · Mac · Linux
WORMWOOD is a narrative-driven strategy game where your goal is to govern an infected city. Become an Arbiter that has arrived to stop the spread of an unknown disease and delve deep into the mysteries of a small mining town. Give out orders and fight the pestilence while searching for its origin.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 53.6% ★, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11%, Strategy 7.7%, Anime 6.9%
- #25 Bio Inc. Classic
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Relive the original Bio Inc. experience, rebuilt from the ground up for PC to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Develop deadly diseases, cripple your victim’s body, and determine their ultimate fate in this biomedical strategy simulator.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.3% ★, Strategy 17.9%, 2D 3.9%
- #26 Dead Night Highway
79% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Mr. Pink
Windows
Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, Exploration 7.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Survival 4.5%
- #27 Day Zero
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Z Industries
Windows
The President is dead. As the least incompetent cabinet member, you have been charged with leading the US response to the escalating zombie crisis. Day Zero is a real-time strategy game about managing a rapidly emerging zombie apocalypse from the White House command bunker.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 64.2% ★, Zombies 14.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Choices Matter 4%
- #28 Dying Reign
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bryce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Disease spreads across your lands, destabilizing regions, draining your resources, and testing your authority. Quarantine cities, draft troops, balance fear and order… but every choice comes at a cost.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.7% ★, Colony Sim 29.6%, Strategy 6.8%, Management 3.4%, 2D 2.5%
- #29 60 Seconds! Reatomized
78% matchVery Positive94% of 19,665 reviews2019
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 41.4% ★, Dark Comedy 10.5%, Text-Based 9.9%, Dark Humor 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%
- #30 Echo Maiden
77% 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 74.7% ★, Exploration 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 3.7%, Indie 0.6%
- #31 Zombie God
76% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Codematik
Windows
It’s time for the zombies to take revenge. Humanity has been happy for far too long, use your arsenal of unholy powers, mutated zombies, and destructive totems to put humanity back in its place in this strategy roguelike game.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 63.8% ★, Zombies 14%, Strategy 9.5%, Dark Humor 7.7%, 2D 2.7%
- #32 War Of The Zombie
79% matchMixed70% of 69 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 74% ★, Strategy 15%, Zombies 11.1%
- #33 Undead Defense TD
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.3% ★, Colony Sim 25.1%, Zombies 12.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 4.7%
- #34 Quarantine Zombies: Contamination
76% matchMixed51% of 85 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 70.1% ★, Survival 8%, Zombies 6.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%, Dark Humor 6.2%
- #35 Infection Free Zone
75% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 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 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.7%, Zombies 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Strategy 8.4%
- #36 Cloud Exiles
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Zombies 14.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 8.6%
- #37 Embers of the Night
73% 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 69.1% ★, Zombies 19%, Exploration 10.5%, 2D 1.4%
- #38 Zombies Aren't Real
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jogamedev
Windows
Zombies aren't Real is a horde-defense, strategy game where you deploy military forces in an attempt to quell a quick-spreading zombie infection and save as many civilians as you can!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.4% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Zombies 6.6%, 2D 3.7%, Management 2.6%
- #39 69 Days After
73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Noxious Games
Windows
Manage your resources, find food and water, contend with your desires, and avoid falling victim to others. Collect items to help you survive, explore and launch expeditions to gather resources, but be careful. Unlock all the Photos by playing the game and experiencing different possibilities.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.4% ★, Visual Novel 12.2%, Zombies 11.7%, Exploration 7.5%, Anime 7.4%
- #40 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
74% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 27%, Zombies 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #41 Project Apocalypse
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39% ★, Colony Sim 25.8%, Zombies 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #42 CyberTown: Prologue
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyber Games
Windows
CyberTown - Is a game about interplanetary colonization where you create new cybernetic cities. Build, develop and strengthen your cities. Natural disasters, diseases, the needs of the population and much more will not let you get bored in this new cybernetic world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.8% ★, Colony Sim 30.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Exploration 7.4%, Choices Matter 0.8%
- #43 Rochford Reanimated
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: aweasd
Windows
Rochford Reanimated is a card-based survival strategy game set in a zombie apocalypse. Lead survivors on missions, manage resources, and make tough choices to rebuild your community or fall to the undead. Every decision could be your last.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Zombies 7.5%, Survival 4.9%
- #44 Dead Hourz
71% 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 50.1% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 8.7%, Exploration 8.4%
- #45 Zombie Cure Lab
70% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, Zombies 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%
- #46 Revenant
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: David HaynesPub: Project 24
Windows
Revenant has you trapped in Camp Hope, you have 7 days to uncover its dark secrets while avoiding the infected. Every night brings new threat, and every discovery brings you closer to the truth behind the second fall of man.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 64.6% ★, Exploration 11.8%, Survival 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #47 Dyin To Live
71% 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 73.7% ★, Strategy 18.8%, 2D 3.9%, Relaxing 2.7%, Indie 0.9%
- #48 CorruptedZ
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JMVGames
Windows
Lead a handful of survivors through the zombie apocalypse. Raise a colony from the ruins, ration every scrap of food and water, research lost tech, and hold the line against night hordes — and raiders who want their cut. Every survivor ages, sickens, and matters. How long can your camp last?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.2% ★, Colony Sim 28.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.6%
- #49 Dino Goodbye
68% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: SmogGames
Windows
An absurd comedy visual novel about a scientist dinosaur trying to stop a meteor while politicians, media stars, and rich lizards compete to be catastrophically stupid.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 76.4% ★, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choices Matter 3.3%, Indie 0.9%
- #50 Infection
71% 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 75% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Survival 8.8%, 2D 1.8%
- #51 Garden Apocalypse
69% matchNo user reviews2027
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 75% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%
- #52 Day Zero
68% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Imdie Studios
Windows
Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.1% ★, Zombies 13.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Survival 7.6%
- #53 STARPHAGE: Galactic Plague Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Binary Suns
Windows · Mac
Starphage is a real-time plague simulation played as a galactic pathogen. Weigh transmission against lethality with every trait you evolve, spread by starship and solar wind alike, and devour a living galaxy before its civilizations engineer a cure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 75% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%, Sci-fi 4.1%, Management 1.6%
- #54 FLESHBREAK
67% matchNo user reviews39% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Horubrain InteractivePub: Hexapede Engine
Windows
A story-driven survival visual novel inspired by SCP-610. Face a flesh-spreading outbreak, make brutal moral choices, protect the people you can’t let go of, and uncover the terrifying truth behind the disease.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.7% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Anime 6.4%, 2D 5.8%, Survival 5.4%
- #55 Plague Architect
67% 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 71.8% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Survival 6.6%, Indie 0.9%
- #56 Survivor's Notes
64% matchVery Positive89% of 540 reviews2026
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Zombies 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%, Survival 7.1%
- #57 Keep Them Busy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hooded Penguin
Windows · Mac
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.6% ★, Colony Sim 34%, Strategy 8.5%, Exploration 7.2%, Management 3.7%
- #58 Zomboard
67% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Outbreak Sim 22.2% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Zombies 14.4%, Survival 4.3%
- #59 Virus Petya
69% matchMixed55% of 41 reviews2018
Dev: Laush Dmitriy SergeevichPub: Laush Studio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 93.5% ★, 2D 2.3%, Relaxing 2.2%, Indie 2%
- #60 Corona Simulator
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Phodex Games
Windows
"Corona Simulator" is a sophisticated mixture of challenging strategy game and frighteningly detailed virus simulation. As a global pandemic leader, you must skillfully manage nations' resources, make tough decisions, and impose drastic measures to combat the deadly coronavirus.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 67.4% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Survival 5.5%, 2D 3.1%