Games like COVID: The Outbreak
If COVID: The Outbreak is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak, Advisors at the End of the Universe and No Place for the Dissident — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About COVID: The Outbreak: 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!
Players who liked COVID: The Outbreak also play
Steam players who put hours into COVID: The Outbreak also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak
WHY THIS
Top pick for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Are you good enough to make your country overcome the pandemic? Try it out! You're the president of a new country, In 1/1/2020 a pandemic started and you have to manage the country balancing 8 constantly chaging statistics using isolation measures or budget investments.
Advisors at the End of the Universe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.
No Place for the Dissident
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
In No Place for the Dissident you'll have to spread a new ideology to dominate the world. Whatever means are necessary. Adopt new politics from the ideology tree, manage each country, and compete with other players. Watch closely the consequences of your acts when the game is over.
Extinction Day
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Ranked #4 for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
Veterans: Napoleonic Wars
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Experience the ultimate Napoleonic Wars Wargame where every volley matters. Command history and turn the tides of war in this immersive Real-Time Strategy experience. Quick decisions and keen tactical formations are the only things that stand between your troops and victory.
WAR PARTY
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Ranked #6 for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?
Distant Worlds: Universe
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Post-Apo Builder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Ranked #8 for COVID: The Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below COVID: The Outbreak at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under COVID: The Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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More from Jujubee S.A.
Other recommendable Steam games by Jujubee S.A., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Realpolitiks
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!
Realpolitiks II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Lead your people to glory and write a new chapter of history in Realpolitiks II, a real-time grand strategy game where you lead any contemporary nation in an attempt to secure world dominance.
KURSK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
KURSK is the first ever adventure and documentary video game inspired by real events. You assume the role of a spy who finds way on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk. While trying to complete your mission, you become witness to the dramatic events which shook the world at that time.
FLASHOUT 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
FLASHOUT 2, the sequel to the highly-acclaimed anti-gravity racer FLASHOUT 3D is finally here! Get into one of many ultra-fast ships and use your arsenal of rockets, guns, bonuses and upgrades to fight your way to victory!
Dark Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Take Off - The Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak.
Fly more than 20 airplanes in an open world or try out more than 40 exciting and varied missions – from airfreighting to dramatic rescue operations!
Spellcrafter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Spellcrafter is an RPG game with deep tactical turn-based combat and a unique spell casting system. Explore the magical world, collect gold, interact with NPCs, take quests and make moral choices! Recruit heroes, assemble and summon powerful troops and send them into battle!
Deep Diving Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with COVID: The Outbreak.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind COVID: The Outbreak. Shares Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Submerge yourself in one of the most immersive diving simulators to date. Gather your gear, choose your diving spot and discover what lies beneath the surface as you venture deep into the unknown.
Frequently asked about COVID: The Outbreak
- How much does COVID: The Outbreak cost?
- COVID: The Outbreak is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to COVID: The Outbreak?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside COVID: The Outbreak are Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak, Advisors at the End of the Universe, No Place for the Dissident.
- Who developed COVID: The Outbreak?
- COVID: The Outbreak was developed by Jujubee S.A. and published by Salient Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on COVID: The Outbreak.
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