Games like Pandemic Train
If Pandemic Train is your kind of game, the closest matches are Armored Train Warfare, National Machine and Last Train Home — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and contemplative. 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 Train: In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
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Steam players who put hours into Pandemic Train 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.
Armored Train Warfare
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Top pick for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pandemic Train.
Operate a heavily armed armored train in a brutal warzone. Man turrets, manage ammunition, repair damage, upgrade your locomotive, and repel relentless enemy attacks while keeping your train moving through hostile territory.
National Machine
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Pandemic Train.
Second-strongest match for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pandemic Train.
You are a munitions manufacturer in 1930s. Help your nation for arms race. Before war break, you need to produce enough aircraft, tanks and guns.
Last Train Home
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Pandemic Train.
Third-strongest match for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pandemic Train.
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
This War of Mine
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Shares a bleak mood with Pandemic Train.
Ranked #4 for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Pandemic Train.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Hearts of Iron IV
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Ranked #5 for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pandemic Train.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Heat Death: Survival Train
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Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Pandemic Train.
Ranked #6 for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Pandemic Train.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Primitive Society Simulator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Pandemic Train.
Ranked #7 for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pandemic Train.
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Kenshi
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Shares base building with Pandemic Train.
Ranked #8 for Pandemic Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pandemic Train.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pandemic Train at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~71% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pandemic Train.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~41% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~41% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Pandemic Train.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~41% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Pandemic Train on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pandemic Train.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pandemic Train.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pandemic Train.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pandemic Train.
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!
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Frequently asked about Pandemic Train
- How much does Pandemic Train cost?
- Pandemic Train is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pandemic Train?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pandemic Train are Armored Train Warfare, National Machine, Last Train Home.
- Who developed Pandemic Train?
- Pandemic Train was developed by Trigger Labs and published by Games Operators, PlayWay S.A..
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