Games like Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak
If Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak is your kind of game, the closest matches are Election Tycoon: Trump vs Harris, Ministry of Pandemic and COVID: The Outbreak — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Pandemic: The Virus 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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Election Tycoon: Trump vs Harris
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Top pick for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Election Tycoon is a real-time strategy game where you lead a campaign to win the 2024 US elections as Trump, Harris, or your own independent candidate. Influence states, color the US map in your party's colors, and outmaneuver your opponents in a high-stakes, map-based political battle.
Ministry of Pandemic
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Ministry of Pandemic is a strategy and simulation game that forces social and economic balance during the pandemic. Formulate your strategy for survival while keeping all aspects of society steady.
COVID: The Outbreak
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus 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!
Rebirth evolution
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Ranked #4 for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
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.
Simulator of Ukraine 1991
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
Wargame: Red Dragon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Becoming Saint
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Ranked #8 for Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and strive to become a saint in your lifetime—or die trying.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
shapez
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Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak
- How much does Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak cost?
- Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak are Election Tycoon: Trump vs Harris, Ministry of Pandemic, COVID: The Outbreak.
- Who developed Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak?
- Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak was developed by John's Project.
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 Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak.
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