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Top Outbreak Sim Games

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

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  1. #1 Plague Inc: Evolved
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 59,582 reviews2016
    Developer: Ndemic Creations
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.2hMean: 17.1h≥1hr: 89%

    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. #2 60 Seconds! Reatomized
    76% matchVery Positive94% of 18,699 reviews2019
    Developer: Robot Gentleman
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 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. #3 60 Seconds!
    72% matchVery Positive85% of 11,636 reviews2015
    Developer: Robot Gentleman
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.1hMean: 9.0h≥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. #4 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
    66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,287 reviews2018
    Developer: Toge ProductionsPublisher: Armor Games Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.0hMean: 6.0h≥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.

  5. #5 Quarantine
    66% matchMixed60% of 435 reviews2017
    Developer: SproingPublisher: 505 Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 3.1h≥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.

  6. #6 Bio Inc. Redemption
    64% matchVery Positive88% of 2,788 reviews2018
    Developer: DryGin Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 75%

    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?

  7. #7 Politics The Game
    61% matchVery Positive95% of 2,186 reviews2025
    Developer: Simplicity Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.8hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 87%

    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.

  8. #8 DeadOS
    61% matchVery Positive99% of 158 reviews2021
    Developer: Benn Powell
    Platforms: 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!

  9. #9 ICBM
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 1,897 reviews2020
    Developer: SoftWarWarePublisher: Slitherine Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 11.6h≥1hr: 76%

    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.

  10. #10 After Inc: Revival
    58% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
    Developer: Ndemic Creations
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.7hMean: 8.1h≥1hr: 83%

    Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.

  11. #11 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
    59% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
    Developer: Septarian Games
    Platforms: 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

  12. #12 Shadows of Forbidden Gods
    57% matchVery Positive92% of 1,028 reviews2023
    Developer: Bobby Two HandsPublisher: Forbidden Oak Games Limited
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 21.7h≥1hr: 83%

    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.

  13. #13 Deisim
    57% matchVery Positive93% of 851 reviews2022
    Developer: Myron Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.1hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 72%

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

  14. #14 The Fabulous Fear Machine
    57% matchVery Positive90% of 560 reviews2023
    Developer: Fictiorama StudiosPublisher: AMC Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.0hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 82%

    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.

  15. #15 Trojan Inc.
    60% matchMostly Negative36% of 33 reviews2017
    Developer: WalkBoy Studio
    Platforms: 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.

  16. #16 Evil Labs
    59% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
    Developer: Mirabolis Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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. #17 Plane Accident
    57% matchMixed58% of 278 reviews2024
    Developer: White Pig GamesPublisher: Duality Games
    Platforms: 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. #18 Execute
    55% matchVery Positive93% of 513 reviews2025
    Developer: Payne Robinson
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 91%

    Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

  19. #19 CURE - A Hospital Simulator
    55% matchVery Positive89% of 574 reviews2025
    Developer: Sentinel Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 7.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Manage 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. Integrate with Twitch chat for even more fun!

  20. #20 Embers of the Night
    55% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026
    Developer: 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. #21 Galacticare
    55% matchVery Positive88% of 626 reviews2024
    Developer: Brightrock GamesPublisher: Mythwright
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.3hMean: 12.9h≥1hr: 95%

    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. #22 State of Survival
    56% matchMixed57% of 454 reviews2023
    Developer: FunPlus International AG
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 184.5h≥1hr: 60%

    Survive the Zombies War in this RPG game of Apocalypse and Survival

  23. #23 War Of The Zombie
    57% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2018
    Developer: Van der Veer Games
    Platforms: 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. #24 Afterinfection
    55% matchMixed58% of 519 reviews2025
    Developer: RePatrick21
    Platforms: 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.

  25. #25 Project L33T: Prologue
    55% matchMixed54% of 586 reviews2024
    Developer: Holmgard Games
    Platforms: Windows

    Dive into Project L33T, a hardcore first-person tactical extraction shooter. Confront AI foes and rival players, engage in high-stakes battles for precious loot, and risk it all in this hostile environment. Die and lose all of your gear and loot.

  26. #26 Arizona Derby
    55% matchMostly Positive77% of 671 reviews2019
    Developer: Falcon Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 45%

    Hit the pedal, run out the offroad.

  27. #27 Infect and Destroy
    57% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015
    Developer: FarrugiaSoft
    Platforms: 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.

  28. #28 Walking Survival
    55% matchMixed41% of 374 reviews2025
    Developer: 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. #29 EVOTINCTION
    53% matchVery Positive89% of 227 reviews2024
    Developer: Spikewave GamesPublisher: Astrolabe Games
    Platforms: 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. #30 Perfect Heist
    55% matchMostly Positive72% of 517 reviews2018
    Developer: yeswecamp
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 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!

  31. #31 This Is the President
    54% matchMixed68% of 403 reviews2021
    Developer: SuperPACPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 7.7h≥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.

  32. #32 40 Days [四十天]
    56% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2017
    Developer: Black Phoenix Studio
    Platforms: 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.

  33. #33 One Last Clip
    53% matchVery Positive90% of 153 reviews2025
    Developer: Struggle Games Studio
    Platforms: Windows

    You are locked inside a cinema. Your only way to escape is to follow the instructions of your task: Watch the same film clip repeatedly and search for flaws to break free. But this may sound easier than it is, every wrong decision or death will set you back. So be careful!

  34. #34 Simulator Z
    54% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2023
    Developer: CASHPublisher: GorillaGamesStudio
    Platforms: Windows

    A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!

  35. #35 Infinite Lives
    52% matchMostly Positive75% of 153 reviews2025
    Developer: MDickie
    Platforms: 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. #36 Quarantine Zombies
    53% matchMixed57% of 56 reviews2026
    Developer: Stones Games
    Platforms: 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.

  37. #37 Plane Accident: Prologue
    53% matchMixed69% of 49 reviews2024
    Developer: White Pig GamesPublisher: Duality Games
    Platforms: 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.

  38. #38 Zombie Simulator
    54% matchVery Positive81% of 133 reviews2021
    Developer: ZHANG FANPublisher: SHEN JIAWEI
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

  39. #39 SuperSorry
    53% matchMostly Positive74% of 116 reviews2025
    Developer: Sun Studio
    Platforms: 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?

  40. #40 No, I'm not a Human
    50% matchVery Positive93% of 26,830 reviews2025
    Developer: TrioskazPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.8hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 92%

    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.

  41. #41 VGL: Imperative
    54% matchPositive85% of 40 reviews2021
    Developer: VladEv1LPublisher: VLRSOFT
    Platforms: 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!

  42. #42 THE SHRiNK Season One
    53% matchMostly Positive70% of 64 reviews2023
    Developer: OneManVNPublisher: OMVN Publishing
    Platforms: 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.

  43. #43 Virus Petya
    54% matchMixed59% of 39 reviews2018
    Developer: Laush Dmitriy SergeevichPublisher: Laush Studio
    Platforms: Windows

    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

  44. #44 COVID: The Outbreak
    54% matchMostly Positive69% of 95 reviews2020
    Developer: Jujubee S.A.Publisher: Salient Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 53.2h≥1hr: 90%

    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!

  45. #45 Undead Inc.
    53% matchMostly Negative34% of 174 reviews2024
    Developer: Rightsized GamesPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: 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.

  46. #46 Parasite Infection
    53% matchVery Positive80% of 143 reviews2021
    Developer: Light Dark Deviant
    Platforms: Windows

    Erotic text-based adventure of blue alien women, parasites, and spaceships.

  47. #47 Go Go Zombies
    53% matchPositive97% of 31 reviews2024
    Developer: 80_boomPublisher: A.D. Bloom
    Platforms: Windows

    Sweet raging fast zombie revenge!

  48. #48 Covid Simulator
    53% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2022
    Developer: Coldrice Games LLC
    Platforms: 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.

  49. #49 Negative Atmosphere: Emergency Room Prototype
    53% matchMixed68% of 120 reviews2023
    Developer: Sunscorched Studios
    Platforms: Windows

    A free, first-person, short medical horror experience that is an early rendition of the prequel we envisioned for Negative Atmosphere.

  50. #50 Distancing
    53% matchMostly Positive77% of 154 reviews2021
    Developer: Jan Place Jakobsen
    Platforms: 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.

  51. #51 Zombies Attack
    51% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
    Developer: Liao Kai
    Platforms: 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! !

  52. #52 Z-Collapse
    53% matchMostly Positive77% of 98 reviews2022
    Developer: Pok&Co
    Platforms: 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?

  53. #53 中国战疫
    53% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2022
    Developer: 不吃蛋黄
    Platforms: Windows

    《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。

  54. #54 Zero Tolerance
    53% matchMostly Positive78% of 67 reviews2020
    Developer: TechnopopPublisher: Piko Interactive LLC
    Platforms: Windows

    Created by Randel Reiss Kill or Be Killed If this 3D game doesn't your adrenaline pumping, nothing will. Zero Tolerance has you killing alien terrorists who want to annihilate your defense colony.

  55. #55 Life on the Edge
    52% matchVery Positive91% of 95 reviews2022
    Developer: LOTE Team
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Life on the Edge is an educational tower defense game. You play as a cell struggling to survive waves of bacteria and the COVID-19 virus. Protect your cell and build an understanding of cell biology at the same time!

  56. #56 Extra Lives
    52% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2023
    Developer: MDickie
    Platforms: Windows

    See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.

  57. #57 Infection Free Zone
    50% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
    Developer: Jutsu GamesPublisher: Games Operators
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 17.3h≥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!

  58. #58 Press A: Extremely Realistic Life Simulator
    51% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2026
    Developer: kastom szopPublisher: kastom szop multimedia
    Platforms: Windows

    Extremely realistic simulator with unprecedented features that let you finally vent all the anxiety modern world induces in you.

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