Games like Epidemic

Looking for that same dark and tense spark as Epidemic? These games line up well for what comes next.

Infection Free Zone
Pick any real place on Earth, from your own street to a city across the ocean, and turn it into a survivor settlement after a virus empties the world. Scavenge familiar buildings by day, then hold your walls against fast, aggressive infected hordes every night. A colony sim with a map you already know.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Scary
80% of 16,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 480$24.99
Infected zone 感染之地
In this open world game, you need to survive in the city where a virus just broke out. You could obtain materials for survival and fight by gathering, sowing and trading. Find more fellow players to complete tasks with you to unlock more areas. Finally escape the infected city if you are lucky!
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Retro
56% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Rebirth evolution
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Retro
62% of 125 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
NightZ
Events occur several months after the global epidemic. Infected turned into aggressive creatures. All survivors are infected with the virus. In order to survive you need to use different medicines. Also you need to avoid predators.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
37% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Infected
A first-person survival sandbox where you build a homestead, farm, hunt and mine through changing seasons, with hunger, thirst and cold to manage. The twist: the hybrid Vambies are optional. Turn them off and it becomes a pure survival-building game, or keep them on and fight.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Scary, Replayable
84% of 6,621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$15.99
Dead Unending
A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
41% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Survival Camp
The story takes place on Halloween night, when people are wearing masks to revel, the mysterious virus spreads quietly, and the virus engulfed the world instantly. The world is no longer safe. You need to build a camp and survive. Good luck. . .
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Scary
44% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Keep Her Safe
Humanity is gone, and 20 billion chickens inherited the Earth. One of them is you: a genius hen holding civilization together in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Scavenge for guns, bolt them onto your base's defenses, hold off zombie hordes, and launch the rocket that ends the acid rain. Cute, chaotic, and best with friends.
Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
88% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99
Ultimate Zombie Defense
A top-down co-op survival shooter set in a sealed-off European suburb. Build fences, turrets and mines between waves, then grab a flamethrower and hold the line with up to three friends while metal plays. Waves get harder, bosses show up, and the horde never stops coming.
Tense, Fast-paced, Scary
86% of 1,416 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$4.99
Dread Dawn
You missed the evacuation convoy. The city is quarantined, the streets belong to the dead, and your school is now home. Dread Dawn is an open-world zombie survival game about holding a camp with other survivors: scavenge the metropolis, grow food, build defenses, and wait out the hordes until rescue comes.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Scary
72% of 2,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城
《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Scary
66% of 159 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Project Apocalypse
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Retro
71% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Epidemic

Infected zone 感染之地

In this open world game, you need to survive in the city where a virus just broke out.

$5.99

NightZ

Events occur several months after the global epidemic. Infected turned into aggressive creatures. All survivors are infected with the virus.

$0.99

Ultimate Zombie Defense

Fortify a sealed-off suburb, then fight off endless zombie waves alongside up to three friends.

$4.99

Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城

《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology.

$5.99

Project Apocalypse

Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse.

$5.99

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

CURE - A Hospital Simulator

Triage the infected, keep the budget alive and run an emergency room with friends while the apocalypse waits outside.

$6.69

Afterinfection

Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand.

$2.24

Survivalist

Build a community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic open world where every choice has consequences.

$4.99

V1RUZ

In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA.

$4.99

Craft Hero

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night!

$4.99

SurvivalZ

A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors!

$0.69

Hidden gems like Epidemic

Keep Her Safe

Scavenge guns, bolt them onto your base and hold off zombie hordes until the rocket flies.

$9.99

CURE - A Hospital Simulator

Triage the infected, keep the budget alive and run an emergency room with friends while the apocalypse waits outside.

$6.69

Human Host

Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.

$16.88

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

$10.79

Survival Log

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

$10.99

Outbreak Island

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

$14.99

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Recruit strangers, build a camp and hold it together while an infected survivor hides in plain sight.

$11.99

Ultimate Zombie Defense 2

Team up with up to three friends, fortify your base between waves and blast through the undead with customized guns.

$9.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Scan the desperate, weigh each risk and hold the line at a checkpoint where one mistake lets the plague in.

$19.99

Dread Dawn

Scavenge a quarantined city for food and materials, fortify your school camp with other survivors, and hold out against the hordes until rescue…

$19.99

HumanitZ

Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.

$19.99

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