
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Outbreak Sim, Simulation, Strategy, Indie.

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.
![40 Days [四十天] header art](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/737600/header.jpg?t=1574438101)
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 83.9% ★, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.6%, Management 4.4%, 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 60.8% ★, Sandbox 14%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 6%, Open World 4.7%
Command fire rescue operations under pressure. Receive emergency calls, dispatch units and make critical decisions in a realistic emergency response strategy simulation.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40.1% ★, Time Management 23.4%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%
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 86% ★, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 1.6%
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 82.4% ★, Sandbox 6.2%, Survival 3.9%, Simulation 3.8%, Stylized 2.1%
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 83.4% ★, Strategy 6%, Simulation 4.7%, Survival 4.4%, Indie 1.5%
Survive a zombie-infested mall for 3 days. Fight, scavenge, rescue, and customize your character in this dynamic game.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.8% ★, Time Management 20.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 4.2%, Indie 0.6%
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 52.1% ★, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 6.3%, Strategy 6.1%
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 77.7% ★, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 4.4%, 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 75.2% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Sandbox 3.1%, Survival 2.1%
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 84.8% ★, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6%, 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 61.4% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%
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 61.3% ★, Time Management 20.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Management 4.8%, 3D 2.9%
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 44.7% ★, Time Management 19%, Open World 9.5%, Management 9.1%, Inventory Management 7.7%
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 77.3% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 68.6% ★, Management 8.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Survival 4.6%
Potholes. Breakdowns. Zombies. Just another shift at the Tollway. Hire Staff, upgrade your tollway, appease HQ and keep traffic flowing before the cursed highway bankrupts you.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.6% ★, Time Management 21.1%, Management 14.5%, Choices Matter 5.8%, Strategy 5.8%
A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 69.1% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 67.8% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Inventory Management 11.4%, Simulation 4.2%, Singleplayer 1%
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 54.9% ★, Time Management 19.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 5.5%, Strategy 4.8%
"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 61.7% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Choices Matter 5.5%
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 60.6% ★, Management 13.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Choices Matter 5.5%
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 64.6% ★, Time Management 22%, Strategy 5.8%, Choices Matter 3.8%, Simulation 3.5%
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 58.3% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 6.6%, Simulation 5.5%
Earth needs antibodies. You are one of them. Play as a bat who hunts by echolocation, infects alien invaders with engineered diseases, and stays one mutation ahead in a desperate biological war for the planet.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 64.1% ★, Time Management 22.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%, 3D 3.8%, Stylized 3.1%
Virus Lab is a first-person simulation where you run a high-security research facility. Play solo or team up in co-op with up to 3 friends. Handle dangerous samples, manage scientists and equipment, prevent containment breaches, and push research forward under constant pressure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.8% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 8.9%, Indie 0.8%
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 67.5% ★, Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Strategy 5%, 3D 3.3%
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 90.2% ★, Simulation 7%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 52.6% ★, Time Management 17.7%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.9%, Choices Matter 5.4%
Restore power to fragmented islands in a post-apocalyptic base-building sandbox. Start from a hidden cave with 1,200+ items, rebuild infrastructure, earn settlement trust, and trade, loot or negotiate—while defending power stations with turrets from enemy waves every 7 days. ⚡🛡️
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.1% ★, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.3%, Inventory Management 10.6%, Open World 9.3%
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 55.2% ★, Time Management 23.1%, Simulation 9%, Management 7.7%, Choices Matter 4.5%
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 57.9% ★, Time Management 20.6%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.2%, 3D 3.4%
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 75.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 9.3%, 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 58.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Management 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Strategy 5.7%
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 80.8% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 79.4% ★, Survival 6.4%, Simulation 6.2%, Open World 4.2%, 3D 2.7%
A new wave of refugees is flooding the checkpoint. Inspect every survivor, identify the infected before they turn, and stop the outbreak from spreading to the outside world in this tense zombie apocalypse screening simulator.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 73.4% ★, Management 10.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Choices Matter 5.3%, 3D 3.1%
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 62.3% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Management 7.4%, Survival 5.5%, Stylized 4.4%
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 47.9% ★, Time Management 17.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 6%
Build a film and television empire in a living entertainment industry beginning in the 1980s. Create and manage productions, cast unique talent, outmaneuver rival studios, climb the box office and grab television ratings in this immersive, old-school tycoon sim.
Why similar: Time Management 24.3%, Management 17.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Simulation 8.9%
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 21.5%, Time Management 18.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Nonlinear 10.1%
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 34.4%, Sandbox 19.6%, Management 15.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Inventory Management 6.5%
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 59.1% ★, Time Management 20.1%, Survival 8.6%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 3.7%
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 76.3% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Management 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 66.6% ★, Management 8.4%, Choices Matter 8%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 4.8%
"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 88.6% ★, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 2.6%
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 73% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
You work the night shift inside a small aid booth. People arrive at your window asking for help. Food. Water. Medicine. Sometimes… things that don’t belong in a donation box. Every box you prepare makes the night worse.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 81.3% ★, Choices Matter 11.4%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.1% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.7%, Simulation 3.8%
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 63.7% ★, Management 13.1%, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.2%
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% ★, Survival 14.1%, Simulation 4.6%, 3D 3.7%, Indie 0.6%
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 67.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 7.2%, Inventory Management 4.1%, 3D 3.9%
Build barricades and face spectacular natural disasters in a relaxing physics-based game where every structure can save lives.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.6% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 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 81.3% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 5.1%, Simulation 4.7%, Indie 1.6%
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 45.3% ★, Time Management 15.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10.3%, Survival 8.4%
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 30.8%, Sandbox 21.5%, Management 12.5%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Inventory Management 9.7%
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 50.2% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 13%, Simulation 8%, Time Management 7.2%
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 63.4% ★, Sandbox 16%, Open World 8.1%, Strategy 5.7%, 3D 4%
Build and run your own kebab restaurant in a single-player management simulation. Set prices, hire staff, serve customers, keep the shop clean, upgrade the interior, and turn a small counter into a thriving food business.
Why similar: Time Management 30.9%, Sandbox 22.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 11.2%
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 46.5% ★, Sandbox 16%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.4%, Management 8.8%