Top Outbreak Sim Games
60+ outbreak sim games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Singleplayer.
Recommended Outbreak Sim Games

Plague Inc: Evolved
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.

60 Seconds! Reatomized
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.
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- #1 Plague Inc: Evolved98% matchVery Positive94% of 65,504 reviews2016Developer: Ndemic CreationsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.9hMean: 16.2h≥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.
- #2 60 Seconds! Reatomized75% matchVery Positive94% of 19,507 reviews2019Developer: Robot GentlemanPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 3.1hMean: 9.5h≥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.
- #3 60 Seconds!71% matchVery Positive85% of 11,689 reviews2015Developer: Robot GentlemanPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 3.2hMean: 9.1h≥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.
- #4 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,363 reviews2018Developer: Toge ProductionsPublisher: Armor Games StudiosPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 4.0hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 87%
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.
- #5 Bio Inc. Redemption64% matchVery Positive87% of 3,210 reviews2018Developer: DryGin StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.4hMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 72%
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?
- #6 Quarantine65% matchMixed60% of 437 reviews2017Developer: SproingPublisher: 505 GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 48mMean: 3.2h≥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.
- #7 DeadOS61% matchVery Positive99% of 181 reviews2021Developer: Benn PowellPlatforms: 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!
- #8 ICBM60% matchVery Positive91% of 1,930 reviews2020Developer: SoftWarWarePublisher: Slitherine Ltd.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 3.5hMean: 11.4h≥1hr: 74%
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
- #9 After Inc: Revival59% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,446 reviews2025Developer: Ndemic CreationsPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 3.9hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 80%
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.
- #10 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue59% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023Developer: Septarian GamesPlatforms: 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
- #11 Shadows of Forbidden Gods57% matchVery Positive92% of 1,061 reviews2023Developer: Bobby Two HandsPublisher: Forbidden Oak Games LimitedPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.2hMean: 21.7h≥1hr: 81%
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.
- #12 CURE - A Hospital Simulator56% matchVery Positive87% of 942 reviews2025Developer: Sentinel GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.9hMean: 9.5h≥1hr: 86%
Manage the night shift of an ER during the apocalypse, solo or with friends online: Diagnose patients. Design and grow your hospital, and defend against the undead while treating the living. If you're a creator, connect the game to Twitch and make the audience your patients for even more fun!
- #13 The Fabulous Fear Machine57% matchVery Positive90% of 575 reviews2023Developer: Fictiorama StudiosPublisher: AMC GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 4.2hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 83%
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.
- #14 Trojan Inc.59% matchMostly Negative36% of 33 reviews2017Developer: WalkBoy StudioPlatforms: 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.
- #15 Execute56% matchVery Positive91% of 676 reviews2025Developer: Payne RobinsonPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.8hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 90%
Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.
- #16 Evil Labs58% matchMixed70% of 82 reviews2018Developer: Mirabolis StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.3hMean: 5.6h≥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!
- #17 Plane Accident57% matchMixed54% of 303 reviews2024Developer: White Pig GamesPublisher: Duality GamesPlatforms: Windows
Become an inspector examining causes of plane crashes. Visit the crash site, gather evidence and interrogate witnesses. Explain whether the accident was caused by independent factors or human errors.
- #18 MOLDRISE55% matchVery Positive98% of 416 reviews2026Developer: Raffaele PiccaPlatforms: Windows, Linux
It started in your foot. Now it’s in your head. All that remains is the command: GO UP. Meet strange neighbors. Make bad trades. Every ascent teaches you what you should have done differently.
- #19 Project L33T: Founders Edition56% matchMixed50% of 683 reviews2026Developer: Targetpoint InteractivePlatforms: Windows
Join the persistent open world of OZERSK! Choose your way to play on PvE or PvP servers, fight for precious loot and gear, and risk it all in a hostile environment. Die, lose all your gear and loot, then return to the same server in hopes of retrieving what you lost. This is your story!
- #20 Embers of the Night55% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026Developer: 巨浪游戏Platforms: 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!
- #21 Galacticare55% matchVery Positive87% of 656 reviews2024Developer: Brightrock GamesPublisher: MythwrightPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.6hMean: 12.1h≥1hr: 93%
Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.
- #22 State of Survival56% matchMixed57% of 475 reviews2023Developer: FunPlus International AGPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.4hMean: 206.5h≥1hr: 59%
Survive the Zombies War in this RPG game of Apocalypse and Survival
- #23 War Of The Zombie57% matchMixed70% of 69 reviews2018Developer: Van der Veer GamesPlatforms: 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.
- #24 Extinction Day54% matchMostly Positive77% of 205 reviews2026Developer: DryGin StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.7hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 58%
End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
- #25 Afterinfection55% matchMixed57% of 526 reviews2025Developer: RePatrick21Platforms: Windows
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
- #26 Zombie Cure Lab54% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025Developer: Thera Bytes GmbHPublisher: Aerosoft GmbHPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 1.4hMean: 4.7h≥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.
- #27 Arizona Derby55% matchMostly Positive76% of 671 reviews2019Developer: Falcon InteractivePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 48mMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 45%
Hit the pedal, run out the offroad.
- #28 Walking Survival54% matchMixed40% of 383 reviews2025Developer: Randomkey Inc.Platforms: Windows
In Walking Survival, the darkness is closing in, and monstrous creatures are coming for you! Harness the power of magic, develop unique abilities, and obliterate waves of enemies before they overwhelm you.
- #29 EVOTINCTION53% matchVery Positive89% of 231 reviews2024Developer: Spikewave GamesPublisher: Astrolabe GamesPlatforms: Windows
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility. Use a variety of hacking skills to overcome robotic threats and uncover the secrets that hold the key to humanity's survival or its potential extinction.
- #30 This Is the President54% matchMixed68% of 409 reviews2021Developer: SuperPACPublisher: THQ NordicPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.6hMean: 7.5h≥1hr: 89%
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.
- #31 Infect and Destroy56% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015Developer: FarrugiaSoftPlatforms: 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.
- #32 Simulator Z54% matchPositive82% of 45 reviews2023Developer: CASHPublisher: GorillaGamesStudioPlatforms: Windows
A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!
- #33 Perfect Heist55% matchMostly Positive72% of 520 reviews2018Developer: yeswecampPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 2.4hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 79%
Perfect Heist is a round-based online game, where the robber team tries to execute a bank robbery without getting noticed, and the cop team tries to prevent it. Robbers hide in plain sight and try to slowly infiltrate the bank while the Cops try to figure out who is a normal customer, and who is a robber!
- #34 Symptoms of Infection53% matchNo user reviews91% of 53 reviews2026Developer: ORB Research & BroadcastingPlatforms: Windows, Linux
Examine and test patients for common and novel infections using sophisticated medical instrumentation and disinfection procedures. All infected patients must be sent to the isolation ward for further evaluation or treatment. Rumors of mysterious diseases and human experimentation are unconfirmed.
- #35 Infinite Lives53% matchMostly Positive76% of 222 reviews2025Developer: MDickiePlatforms: Windows
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
- #36 40 Days [四十天]55% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2017Developer: Black Phoenix StudioPlatforms: 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.
- #37 Quarantine Zombies: Contamination53% matchMixed51% of 83 reviews2026Developer: Stones GamesPlatforms: 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.
- #38 Plane Accident: Prologue53% matchMixed69% of 55 reviews2024Developer: White Pig GamesPublisher: Duality GamesPlatforms: Windows
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.
- #39 No, I'm not a Human50% matchVery Positive93% of 30,435 reviews2025Developer: TrioskazPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEXPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.8hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 91%
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
- #40 Zombie Simulator53% matchVery Positive81% of 133 reviews2021Developer: ZHANG FANPublisher: SHEN JIAWEIPlatforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!
- #41 COVID: The Outbreak54% matchMostly Positive70% of 97 reviews2020Developer: Jujubee S.A.Publisher: Salient GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.2hMean: 61.6h≥1hr: 91%
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!
- #42 VGL: Imperative54% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2021Developer: VladEv1LPublisher: VLRSOFTPlatforms: Windows
You will have to visit the patient's apartment, find out about the agent's disappearance and submit a report to VGL Corporation. The task is easy, but after you enter the apartment, the picture will change and only the goal will remain - to survive!
- #43 SuperSorry53% matchMostly Positive75% of 124 reviews2025Developer: Sun StudioPlatforms: Windows
You play as a salaryman who gets caught in various everyday troubles and overcomes them with acrobatic bows. From boss reprimands to client complaints and family issues, showcase your elegant apology skills across different scenarios. What shocking ending awaits?
- #44 FLESHBREAK53% matchNo user reviews40% of 82 reviews2026Developer: Horubrain InteractivePublisher: Hexapede EnginePlatforms: 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.
- #45 THE SHRiNK Season One53% matchMixed69% of 68 reviews2023Developer: OneManVNPublisher: OMVN PublishingPlatforms: Windows, Linux
THE SHRiNK is an AVN. You play as Alex (default name) you can choose your name, and the names of the rest of the main cast. You can also choose your relationship with them from the very start of the game. Choices in this game will decide the type of content you see or miss out on.
- #46 Virus Petya54% matchMixed56% of 40 reviews2018Developer: Laush Dmitriy SergeevichPublisher: Laush StudioPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 24mMean: 4.4h≥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
- #47 Go Go Zombies53% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2024Developer: 80_boomPublisher: A.D. BloomPlatforms: Windows
Sweet raging fast zombie revenge!
- #48 Undead Inc.53% matchMostly Negative33% of 178 reviews2024Developer: Rightsized GamesPublisher: Team17Platforms: Windows
Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical Corporation. Build, manage staff, conduct research, and trade in both cutting edge medical treatments and bleeding edge bioweapons.
- #49 Negative Atmosphere: Emergency Room Prototype53% matchMixed68% of 120 reviews2023Developer: SunscorchedPlatforms: Windows
A free, first-person, short medical horror experience that is an early rendition of the prequel we envisioned for Negative Atmosphere.
- #50 Parasite Infection53% matchMostly Positive78% of 143 reviews2021Developer: Light Dark DeviantPlatforms: Windows
Erotic text-based adventure of blue alien women, parasites, and spaceships.
- #51 Covid Simulator53% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2022Developer: Coldrice Games LLCPlatforms: Windows
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.
- #52 Politics The Game50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,552 reviews2025Developer: Simplicity GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 5.8hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 88%
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
- #53 Zombies Attack51% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2025Developer: Liao KaiPlatforms: Windows
Zombies Attack is a retro pixel horizontal action game. You will face a large number of zombies and bosses in the doomsday. Pick up your weapons and fight your way out of the zombies! !
- #54 Distancing53% matchMostly Positive77% of 154 reviews2021Developer: Jan Place JakobsenPlatforms: Windows
Distancing is a social distancing game where you are going to a party, but on the way you need to try and keep the social distancing.
- #55 Press A: Extremely Realistic Life Simulator52% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2026Developer: kastom szopPublisher: kastom szop multimediaPlatforms: Windows
Extremely realistic simulator with unprecedented features that let you finally vent all the anxiety modern world induces in you.
- #56 No More Room in Hell 250% matchMixed54% of 25,427 reviews2026Developer: Torn Banner StudiosPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 8.2hMean: 24.6h≥1hr: 90%
No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.
- #57 Survival Log50% matchVery Positive83% of 1,723 reviews2026Developer: Midnight WorkshopPublisher: Lilith GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 8.5hMean: 13.4h≥1hr: 90%
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. 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.
- #58 Z-Collapse52% matchMostly Positive77% of 98 reviews2022Developer: Pok&CoPlatforms: Windows
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?
