Games like The Infected
If The Infected is your kind of game, the closest matches are Survival: Fountain of Youth, Mist Survival and TerraTech Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building large complex bases, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →The Infected is an open-world survival game developed by DigX Studios. Players engage in base-building, crafting systems, defensive strategy, and exploration across a sandbox environment with changing seasons. Reviewers describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with players highlighting the appeal of building large complex bases and the importance of tactical positioning. The game supports solo play only. It launched in Early Access in 2020 with a price of 15.99 USD and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck. According to Steam reviews, it holds an 84% positive rating from over 3,600 players.
About The Infected: The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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Survival: Fountain of Youth
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Infected.
Top pick for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Mist Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building with The Infected.
Second-strongest match for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares base building, exploration and an immersive mood with The Infected.
Third-strongest match for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
ICARUS
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with The Infected.
Ranked #4 for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Infected.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Infected.
Ranked #5 for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with The Infected.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with The Infected.
Ranked #6 for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Infected.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Infected.
Ranked #7 for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Infected.
Ranked #8 for The Infected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Infected
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Left 4 Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Infected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Infected.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Infected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Infected.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Infected.
Reviewers of The Infected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Early Access with The Infected.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Infected at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Infected.
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 ~69% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with The Infected.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Infected.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Infected.
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 ~50% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Infected.
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 ~69% under The Infected on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Infected.
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.
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 Action and Indie with The Infected.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Infected.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Infected.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Infected.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Infected.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Infected.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with The Infected.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about The Infected
- Does The Infected run on Steam Deck?
- The Infected is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Infected cost?
- The Infected is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Infected?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Infected are Survival: Fountain of Youth, Mist Survival, TerraTech Worlds.
- Who developed The Infected?
- The Infected was developed by DigX Studios.
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