
The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
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The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
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40 Days [四十天]
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.

Garden Apocalypse
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.
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 83.3% ★, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 4.8%, Management 4.7%, Indie 1.4%
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 60.6% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 10%, Strategy 6.2%, Open World 4.6%
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 85.6% ★, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%, Indie 1.7%
Survive a zombie-infested mall for 3 days. Fight, scavenge, rescue, and customize your character in this dynamic game.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61% ★, Time Management 21.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 4.3%, Indie 0.6%
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 83.2% ★, Sandbox 5.7%, Simulation 3.9%, Survival 3.7%, Stylized 2%
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 83.1% ★, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 4.9%, Survival 4.4%, Indie 1.5%
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 51.3% ★, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Survival 6.2%
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 77.5% ★, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 4.6%, Indie 0.8%
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 74.8% ★, Strategy 11%, Simulation 7%, Sandbox 3.1%, Survival 2%
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 84.4% ★, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.2%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 61% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.6%
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 60.4% ★, Time Management 21.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Management 5%, 3D 3%
A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.6% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Simulation 9.8%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Piverdex has taken over the country thanks to a virus you created. As a researcher accused of an epidemic, he explores the entire country of Piverantum and creates the vaccine to save the country.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.9% ★, Time Management 19.4%, Management 9.5%, Open World 9.1%, Inventory Management 8%
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 67.1% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Inventory Management 11.9%, Simulation 4.3%, Singleplayer 1%
You play as a Husky Girl, Survive the Pandemic, make a story path for her. Move fast or Die fast.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.8% ★, Management 11.4%, Survival 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Inventory Management 7.5%
"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 61.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7%, Choices Matter 5.8%
Design, deploy, and manage the release of parasitic wasps to save a national park from invasive insect pests. Harness the power of nature’s most efficient killers to strike back at the invaders and turn them into The Crawling Dead!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 63.7% ★, Time Management 22.6%, Strategy 5.9%, Choices Matter 3.9%, Simulation 3.6%
The crash is just the beginning. Trapped in the frozen hell of Siberia, you must fight for every single day. Use the wreckage, build shelter, find food, and face deadly threats. Rescue may never come – how long can you survive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 58.1% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 6.5%, Simulation 5.7%
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 89.9% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Restore power to fragmented island in a post-apocalyptic world in this base building sandbox with more than 1200 items available from start using the starting cave. Rebuild infrastructure, manage resources, and earn the trust of settlements. Trade, loot, or negotiate to survive. Every choice matters
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.8% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Open World 9%
SNOTROCKET is a retro co-op space game where you and your friends are violently ill and racing to find a cure before the ship explodes. Expect flying snot, projectile vomit, and catastrophic bowel failure at every turn.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.1% ★, Nonlinear 13.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 7.7%, Choices Matter 7.3%
VIRUS-19 has ravaged the world! Take control of a mindless citizen and live through a 7-day quarantine inside of Lockdown City.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.2% ★, Time Management 18.3%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 8.7%, Choices Matter 5.5%
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 75.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 57.9% ★, Survival 13%, Management 10%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Strategy 5.8%
Gather and build during the day, then hold the line at night as hostile drones assault your base. A top-down sci-fi tower defense strategy game about resource management, base expansion, and surviving escalating nightly threats.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.5% ★, Time Management 18.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Management 6.9%, Stylized 4.3%
Take control of a metropolitan police department and run it your way. Recruit, train, and equip officers, then send them to the streets to fight crime and keep peace in the city of Freemont.
Why similar: Management 22.2%, Time Management 19%, Sandbox 16%, Strategy 11.2%, Nonlinear 9.8%
Virus Lab is a first-person simulation where you run a high-security research facility. Handle dangerous samples, manage scientists and equipment, prevent containment breaches, and push research forward under constant pressure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.1% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 0.8%
Full game coming January 2027. Try the demo free now! You need to make it out alive before you can even think about revenge! Use Firefighting and Physics to solve puzzles and power up as you explore and solve your way through the emergent chaos.
Why similar: Time Management 34.5%, Sandbox 19.2%, Management 16.2%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Inventory Management 6.6%
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 47% ★, Time Management 18%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 79.5% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Survival 6.3%, Open World 4%, 3D 2.7%
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 65.6% ★, Management 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.8%
Operator: Observation is a Game based on the "Watch Rooms, and Report Anomalies" Concept of "Observation Duty" but now the Anomalies are way more aggressive and have way more ways to make you lose your Mind. Your Instructor will follow you on the way to becoming a good Operator.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.8% ★, Time Management 25.2%, 3D 4.4%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Create your very own religion and make history by dominating the whole wide world! Define your dogmas and wage holy wars on land, sea, and in the sky. Convert as many as you can to your belief system!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.3% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Time Management 7.4%
In a post-apocalyptic world, found and develop your own colony under the threat of the undead. Be cautious against enemy colonies or form alliances. Engage in action-fueled battles against the undead and other humans using FPS or TPS game modes. Formulate your strategy and survive!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.3% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.2%, Simulation 3.9%
Manage your very own comic book store! You can unlock over 70+ unique comic licenses, each having 5 volumes for you to sell to your customers! Upgrade your tools, hire staffs, and expand your store so you can have the best comic book store in the world!
Why similar: Time Management 31%, Sandbox 21.2%, Management 12.9%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Inventory Management 9.8%
"Pathogen" is a STG game base on real human body with little Rogue-Like element. You can propagate evolve infect and hide as different kinds of pathogens in human body.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 88.3% ★, Simulation 9%, Indie 2.7%
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 80.7% ★, Strategy 6.6%, Survival 5%, Simulation 4.9%, Indie 1.7%
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 68% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 6.9%, Inventory Management 4.3%, 3D 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 77.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Simulation 4.8%, 3D 3.8%, Indie 0.7%
It’s time to turn the page and create the bookshop of your dreams. Customise your Layout. Customise your Colour Scheme. Build bigger and bigger. A casual, simulation game where you get to build and tend to your own bookshop.
Why similar: Time Management 29.2%, Sandbox 18.6%, Management 17.3%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Strategy 7%
Rosemary is a first person psychological horror game. Delve into the eerie depths of an abandoned psychiatric facility to unravel the mysteries behind the longing presence of spirits and demons, years after its closure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 63.2% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 7.9%, Strategy 5.9%, 3D 4%
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 41.9% ★, Management 12.5%, Time Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.7%
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 80.2% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 8.6%
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is an urban survival game about preparation and foresight. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43% ★, Time Management 20.6%, Survival 13.2%, Inventory Management 12.2%, Simulation 5.3%
Fulgeonix criminals, made of pure energy, escape and sow chaos. Hunted by the Chaenombrus, guardians who can make themselves invisible, they must use their transformative powers to survive. In “Prisoners Hunt”, every escape is a fight for freedom.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 70.1% ★, Sandbox 22%, Survival 6.9%, Indie 1%
Sandbox Apocalypse is a 3rd person view, open world post-apocalyptic survial game where you are responsible for your own fate. Survive in a world inhabited by zombies, gather loot, build your base and explore the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.1% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.1%, Management 9.3%
In Laundry Store Simulator, you'll start small and work your way up, upgrading your equipment, designing a stylish store, and expanding your services! Are you ready to own the best Laundry Store in the world?
Why similar: Time Management 29%, Management 19.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Inventory Management 6.8%
The power grid has failed. You have no phone, no internet. Only the eHUB, your power source for emergencies. Your neighbors are counting on you — but what will you do? The story-driven simulation game “eHUB cities – Blackout” is being developed under the direction of the LOEWE Center emergenCITY.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 54.8% ★, Time Management 21.3%, Management 9.2%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 5.2%
Embark on a gripping turn-based tactical game in a zombie-infested world. Choose survivors or zombies. Gather resources, recruit allies, and strategize against the undead or join the undead. Shape custom maps, and decide the fate of the world. Join the fight now!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 54% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 11%, Survival 8%, Strategy 6.5%
Trade guns on a city plagued by gangs and expand your criminal empire
Why similar: Time Management 30.8%, Sandbox 22.8%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.7%
As The Light Goes Out is a simulation game utilizing Emergency and Rescue services from across the globe as its background. Become the Emergency Services Commander and take charge of the Fire, Police, and Paramedic departments! Instruct your teams and ensure public safety!
Why similar: Time Management 31.8%, Sandbox 28%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 14.8%, 3D 6.7%
"Survive a zombie nightmare in 'Resident Fear: Redistribution.' Explore, solve puzzles, and confront the undead in this thrilling horror adventure from Gamesoft Studios."
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 69.2% ★, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 6.6%, 3D 4.8%
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.5% ★, Management 18.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.2%
Dive into the heart of aviation mysteries in "Plane Accident: Prologue." Explore realistic crash sites, analyze evidence, and solve puzzles. Unveil the truth in this thrilling prelude to the full "Plane Accident" experience.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 74.1% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 4.9%, Choices Matter 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 66.8% ★, Management 15.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Open World 6.9%, Simulation 3.1%
it is an open world multiplayer survival game that combines sandbox and simulation elements, including base building, NPC recruitment, community building, and the fusion of zombie growth elements and major event elements.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.6% ★, Sandbox 17%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.4%, Simulation 4.9%
In Rubish Island, pilot the Ferrum-1 robot to restore a polluted archipelago. Clean debris to revive wildlife and vegetation, recycle waste into upgrades, and equip special tools for faster cleanup.
Why similar: Time Management 28.8%, Management 16.2%, Survival 13.8%, Inventory Management 13.2%, Open World 9.4%
Dark Survival is a horror survival game with a mix of the classic survival mechanics of find the items around the map to survive and the scary sounds and monsters of a horror game.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 74.9% ★, Survival 10%, Inventory Management 8.3%, Open World 5.6%, Indie 0.9%
A post-apocalyptic single-player simulator where you sell resources to survivors to withstand internal and external threats. Work with scavengers to gather supplies, keep your shelter secure, and uncover the secrets of the bunker.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.5% ★, Time Management 21%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 3.6%