
In the event of a global pandemic, would your first priority be preserving lives or saving the economy?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Outbreak Sim, Strategy, Indie.

In the event of a global pandemic, would your first priority be preserving lives or saving the economy?

Plague Doctor: Medieval Apothecary
In a city where death lingers in the air, you are the last one who can resist it. Put on the plague doctor’s mask and fight the plague before it reaches you.

No Emergency: Pestilence
No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.
In a city where death lingers in the air, you are the last one who can resist it. Put on the plague doctor’s mask and fight the plague before it reaches you.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.8% ★, Medical Sim 40% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 6.2%, Realistic 1%
No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.2% ★, Medical Sim 39.8% ★, Simulation 10%, Resource Management 4.8%, Management 1.9%
Running an international organization called the Global Quarantine Bureau, dealing with pandemics and public health issues worldwide, while also ensuring increasing revenue and personal enrichment.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 32.7% ★, Medical Sim 30.7% ★, Political Sim 20.6% ★, Simulation 5%, Strategy 5%
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!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 3.4%
Everescape is a simulator of an employee of the immigration department, the main task of which is to prevent the entry and spread of the virus. Whether you choose to follow all the recommendations or show mercy, the choice is yours.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.1% ★, Political Sim 33.8% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5%, Indie 1.5%
Will you be able to infect all devices of the world? «Trojan Inc.» - simulator, which will involve you in a world of computer viruses and trojans.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 80% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 3%
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 81.3% ★, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 2.7%, Management 1.2%
Ministry of Pandemic is a strategy and simulation game that forces social and economic balance during the pandemic. Formulate your strategy for survival while keeping all aspects of society steady.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.5% ★, Medical Sim 30.8% ★, Political Sim 21.8% ★, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 4.8%
Save the world from COVID with nukes!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.7% ★, Political Sim 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Simulation 5.7%, Strategy 5.5%
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 66.4% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 12.8%, 2D 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.3% ★, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 69.4% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 2.3%, Casual 1.5%
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 79.3% ★, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Casual 3%, Indie 2.7%
When your airplane enters a massive storm, you aren’t a passenger anymore. You are a survivor. Trapped at 35,000 feet, you need to keep a cool head and act fast to live through the crisis. Can you make it to a happy landing?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.6% ★, Medical Sim 38% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 38.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Political Sim 22% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Strategy 5.5%
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 42.1% ★, Medical Sim 41.5% ★, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 5.3%, Management 2.8%
Build your fortune in a living medieval kingdom. Establish shops, manage caravans, master a dynamic economy, and outmaneuver rival merchant houses in single-player or competitive multiplayer as you build the realm's greatest trading empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.8%, Political Sim 26.5% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Casual 5.1%
《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 43.2% ★, Medical Sim 37% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Simulation 5.6%, Strategy 4%
Patient Zero: Plague Idle is an idle / incremental outbreak builder where you create the perfect pathogen through mutation trees, global infection, long-term upgrades, and new pathogen unlocks. Turn the world into your lab.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.5% ★, Medical Sim 21.3% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 6.1%
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 56.1% ★, Political Sim 30.6% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 4.5%, Management 2.8%
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 42.4% ★, Political Sim 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 5.1%
Fight ever-mutating bacteria and viruses, collect gene modules from fallen pathogens, evolve and strengthen your immune system, unlock a variety of medical interventions, and create powerful synergistic builds to survive an ever-escalating infection.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.8% ★, Medical Sim 38.5% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 3.5%, 2D 2.8%
False Death has come to Grizmar. The plague steals souls and turns bodies into soulless puppets, doomed to repeat the final hours of their lives forever. Can you survive as the city turns into a puppet theater?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.5% ★, Medical Sim 39% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Management 2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Lead a modern fire and rescue center inspired by real French firefighters. Build your station, train your crews, and dispatch the right vehicles for each emergency. Coordinate every mission in real time on an immersive operational map.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.4% ★, Grand Strategy 36.8%, Simulation 12.5%, 2D 2.7%, Management 1.8%
You've been bitten. Hours before you turn. All you have left: a clock running out and a deserted hospital lab. Identify the virus, synthesize your antiviral, and test it. But every win teaches it to resist you. Before I Turn blends survival, auto battler and simulation into one experience.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.7% ★, Medical Sim 39.5% ★, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5%, Realistic 1%
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 405 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.1%, Political Sim 29.5% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 8.5%
A free, first-person, short medical horror experience that is an early rendition of the prequel we envisioned for Negative Atmosphere.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38% ★, Medical Sim 34.6% ★, Political Sim 22.2% ★, Simulation 3.3%, Realistic 1.4%
“Hero Hospital” is a classic hospital management game: send in undercover agents and fake patient brokers, unleash dogs to cause crashes and chaos, dump trash and throw bombs, and even head into outbreak zones to fight viruses. The gameplay can be expanded endlessly.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45% ★, Medical Sim 43.2% ★, Strategy 4.8%, Simulation 4.3%, Management 2%
Examine and test patients for common and novel infections using sophisticated medical instrumentation. Isolate and treat infected patients. Discover the wonders, mysteries, and horrors of medical science. Rumors of mysterious diseases and human experimentation are unconfirmed.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.4% ★, Medical Sim 26.7% ★, Simulation 10.1%, 2D 2.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Build your own theme hospital! Here, you might meet patients with a lot of hair, or no hair; strange aliens, evil guy, super hero…
Why similar: Medical Sim 61.8% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 14%, Casual 5.7%, Indie 4.5%
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 51.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Resource Management 6%, Strategy 5.1%, Simulation 4.2%
In a time of growing unrest and uncertainty, a new threat to humanity emerges - take control of any nation as major outbreaks challenge world order. Global Pandemics and Mysterious Outbreaks will test humanity to the limits.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Political Sim 21% ★, Resource Management 7.5%, Simulation 4.9%
The Pharma R&D Pipeline Manager Game is a round-based educational business and management simulation. Step into the shoes of a Pharma R&D CEO! Lead key research & development units, close transformative deals and optimize your project pipeline. Learn the core principles of drug development.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.8%, Medical Sim 27.4% ★, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10.4%
A pharmaceutical business management game.
Why similar: Medical Sim 58.7% ★, Resource Management 14.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 10.9%, 2D 3.1%
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 37.1%, Political Sim 31.4% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Indie 4.1%
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 80.4% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Indie 3.8%, 2D 2.7%, Casual 1.7%
Survive a haunted library's overnight shift by balancing authentic librarian duties with stealth as a relentless supernatural entity hunts you. Uncover hidden secrets, survive until morning, and discover what waits between the shelves.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.7% ★, Grand Strategy 34.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Realistic 1.9%
Run for President of the United States. Fight through a state-by-state primary, pick a running mate at the convention, trade blows across every televised debate, and hold your coalition together on election night — one decision a week, in a country paying attention to every one.
Why similar: Political Sim 44% ★, Grand Strategy 31%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Three Kingdoms Strategy Simulator is an AI-native historical strategy title. Every NPC possesses independent cognition and persistent long-term memory. None of the regional warlords are pre-scripted routines hardcoded into the game engine。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.9%, Political Sim 29.7% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 6.6%
Rule the world from the shadows. Command powerful Lords, exploit the military, economic, cyber, media, and political weaknesses of nations, expand your influence across the globe, and outmaneuver rival powers fighting to establish their own World Order.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.1%, Political Sim 33.9% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 5.2%
Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2%, Political Sim 23% ★, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 5.6%
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% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Indie 1.5%
Build and manage your very own Supermarket and make it success, with good offers and best selected products. Attract more customers with an aggressive strategy and grow to become the best Supermarket in town.
Why similar: Medical Sim 40% ★, Outbreak Sim 39% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Resource Management 5.2%, Management 1.6%
Save Us, Doctor Faust! is an immersive medieval doctor simulator where you diagnose diseases, study medicine, and craft remedies from raw ingredients. Examine your patients, grind and distill ingredients, experiment with recipes — and remember: one mistake could cost a life.
Why similar: Medical Sim 42.2% ★, Outbreak Sim 37.7% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 5.2%, Management 3.3%
Just A Flu is a strategy simulation game about fighting the deadly fast spreading disease. Decide how to deal with infected people, when to close transport hubs, declare quarantine, or lockdown. Can you not only stop pandemic but avoid panic and not destroy the economy, causing more harm?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 54.5% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Management 3.8%
The city is drowning in Plague. Panic, hunger, and fear are tearing it apart. You are the last one who can change its fate: heal it, hold it back from collapse… or drive it to ruin with your own hands!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.1% ★, Medical Sim 43.9% ★, Simulation 4.3%, 2D 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A top-down plague simulation RPG set in a living medieval tapestry. Play the last apothecary in a dying town treating the sick, containing the outbreak, and navigating the politics of factions who'd sooner see you burn.
Why similar: Medical Sim 51.6% ★, Outbreak Sim 38.5% ★, Simulation 5.9%, Casual 2.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?
Why similar: Political Sim 39.5% ★, Grand Strategy 32.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 3.7%
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 64.2%, Political Sim 24.5% ★, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Geopolitics doesn't have to be complex. In this casual strategy game, you take control of one of four great powers and try to expand your influence across the globe. But beware: if you're too reckless, the game ends faster than you think...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.8%, Political Sim 36.4% ★, Strategy 14.8%, 2D 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Rescue Operations Simulator is a game where you play the role of USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) member and a team leader. You will arrange and execute rescue operations from real life catastrophic events that shocked and changed the whole world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49% ★, Medical Sim 40.2% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Realistic 2%, Indie 0.3%
Here is a fun simulator of passing a medical examination in the Chelyabinsk clinic with realistic graphics and interesting gameplay! Take the coronavirus test! Collect as many virtual health points as you can, but remember ... this is just a game!
Why similar: Medical Sim 75.5% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Casual 5%, Indie 4.5%, Realistic 1.9%
Weed Inc. is a global strategy simulation. Build a cannabis strain from fragments, introduce it to legal markets, and spread it country by country. Turn Consumers into Addicts, contain the Side Effects, and stay ahead of an escalating Global Response.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.6% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 3.7%
The world is in agony. The only salvation is faith. Forge a god from the fears and hopes of a dying humanity. Spread your ideas like a virus, mutate dogmas, and battle other egregores for the last souls on Earth. A strategy game about manipulating consciousness without direct control.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 37.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%, 2D 2.3%
Discover the life of Dr Greenstuff, grow marijuana, coca, make meth', drugs and more to keep your legal/illegal business running.
Why similar: Medical Sim 71.6% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Indie 4.9%
Shape a nation in a procedural grand strategy sandbox where geography, industry, diplomacy, and war drive emergent history. Build your state, secure resources, manage instability, and survive a world of rival powers.
Why similar: Political Sim 42.4% ★, Grand Strategy 36.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.1%, 2D 3.7%
This Is the President is a political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to abuse the position of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.3% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3%, Political Sim 24.8% ★, Strategy 5.8%, 2D 2.9%