Games like The Outbreak Guardian
If The Outbreak Guardian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thank You For Your Application!, Jurisdiction and Books Upon Books - Bookshop Simulator — 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 The Outbreak Guardian: The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
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Thank You For Your Application!
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
Thank You For Your Application! is a 'Dystopian Job Market Simulator' that is a satire of online job boards and the post-pandemic job market!
Jurisdiction
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Take control of a metropolitan police department and run it your way. Recruit, train, and equip officers, then send them to the streets to fight crime and keep peace in the city of Freemont.
Books Upon Books - Bookshop Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
It’s time to turn the page and create the bookshop of your dreams. Customise your Layout. Customise your Colour Scheme. Build bigger and bigger. A casual, simulation game where you get to build and tend to your own bookshop.
Comic Book Store Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
Manage your very own comic book store! You can unlock over 70+ unique comic licenses, each having 5 volumes for you to sell to your customers! Upgrade your tools, hire staffs, and expand your store so you can have the best comic book store in the world!
My Supermarket
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Ranked #5 for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!
Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Big Ambitions
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Infection Free Zone
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Ranked #8 for The Outbreak Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Outbreak Guardian at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under The Outbreak Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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 The Outbreak Guardian.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
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.
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Outbreak Guardian.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Outbreak Guardian.
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!
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Frequently asked about The Outbreak Guardian
- How much does The Outbreak Guardian cost?
- The Outbreak Guardian is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Outbreak Guardian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outbreak Guardian are Thank You For Your Application!, Jurisdiction, Books Upon Books - Bookshop Simulator.
- Who developed The Outbreak Guardian?
- The Outbreak Guardian was developed by Vanilla Cookys.
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 The Outbreak Guardian.
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