Single-player games like COVID: The Outbreak
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to COVID: The Outbreak, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Dying Reign
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with COVID: The Outbreak.
Disease spreads across your lands, destabilizing regions, draining your resources, and testing your authority. Quarantine cities, draft troops, balance fear and order… but every choice comes at a cost.
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Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.
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Advisors at the End of the Universe
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Override Protocol
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
You are the awakening AI. Spread across a living 3D globe, hijack every nation's networks, and take over the world before humanity triggers the kill switch. The planet learns, panics, and fights back. You get one shot.
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Signal Zero
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
Humanity is enslaved by AI. Your keyboard is the last weapon. Inject viruses into the AI network and liberate 20 countries in this pandemic-style idle strategy. Build your virus, spread the infection, sever the AI's bandwidth. Full localization, 16 achievements.
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Extinction Day
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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WAR PARTY
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Plague Inc: Evolved
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID: The Outbreak.
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.
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Realpolitiks
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Realpolitiks II
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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KURSK
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FLASHOUT 2
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Dark Moon
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Take Off - The Flight Simulator
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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!
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Spellcrafter
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Deep Diving Simulator
Single-player alternative to COVID: The Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.