The Outbreak Sim Zone

Simulations of spreading disease, containment, collapse, infection, or emergency response.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Survivor's Notes - Players say: A manga artist with apocalypse dreams and a soldier from the future shape a zombie outbreak’s story through choices and QTEs. Players like: Story and Characters · Cinematic Action Scenes · Branching Story Paths ·
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"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.

After Inc: Revival - Players say: Lead survivors after a zombie apocalypse, building settlements, managing scarce resources, exploring ruins, and fighting infestations. Players like: Accessible Strategy · Relaxed Mission Sessions · Zombie-Rebuilding Premise ·
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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.

MOLDRISE - Players say: A foot infection drives you up a 30-floor apartment block, where you barter, scavenge, and learn from each failed climb. Players like: Oppressive Building Atmosphere · Knowledge-Based Progression · Distinctive Visuals and Sound ·
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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.

Extinction Day - End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
Calyx - A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
SLEEP AWAKE - In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. From Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.
Infinite Lives - 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...

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Dread Dawn - Players say: A student stranded in a quarantined city scavenges supplies, recruits survivors, and builds defenses against zombie attacks. Players like: Zombie Horde Combat · Base Defense Building · Scavenging and Looting ·
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This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

DeadOS - 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!
Baby Blues Nightmares - Toddler Horror Game - Baby Blues Nightmares is a survival horror stealth game where you play as a toddler going into a little adventure with your tricycle which you can fix, maintain and customize. Paddle, hide and survive but remember; try not to cry when you are scared.. or the monsters will hear you and get you.
EVOTINCTION - 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.
One Last Clip - 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!
Rogue AI Simulator - Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Plague Inc: Evolved - Players say: Evolve a pathogen from Patient Zero, spreading it across the globe while adapting to border closures and humanity’s cure efforts. Players like: Strategic Disease Evolution · Varied Disease Types · Absorbing Short Sessions ·
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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 - Players say: Race through your home in 60 seconds to save family and supplies, then ration, explore, and make choices in a fallout shelter. Players like: Unpredictable Runs · Darkly Absurd Humor · Timed Supply Scramble ·
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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.

Shadows of Forbidden Gods - Players say: As an awakening dark god, direct covert agents to manipulate a fantasy world's rulers and heroes and bring about its apocalypse. Players like: Villainous Scheming · Varied God Playstyles · Reactive World Simulation ·
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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.

ICBM - Players say: Command a continent in nuclear war: research weapons, build forces, plan strikes, and defend your population from retaliation. Players like: Strategic Research Choices · Nuclear War Tension · Accessible Strategy Gameplay ·
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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.

60 Parsecs! - Players say: Race through an exploding station to gather crew and supplies, then manage a spacebound team through risky choices and expeditions. Players like: Dark Comic Writing · Different Run Outcomes · Meaningful Crew Choices ·
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60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.

Bio Inc. Redemption - Players say: Manage a patient's health from either side: diagnose and treat diseases, or build illness chains before doctors can intervene. Players like: Two-Sided Campaigns · Diagnostic Deduction · Strategic Case Variety ·
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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?

60 Seconds! - Players say: With a nuclear strike imminent, Ted has 60 seconds to gather his family and supplies, then manage their survival in a shelter. Players like: Chaotic 60-Second Rush · Dark Humor Events · Randomized Survival Stories ·
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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.