Games like Pathogen
If Pathogen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mining Copper, Game of Gods and EcoGenesis — 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 Pathogen: Pathogen is a real-time strategy game, where you take control of a plague that is causing a pandemic. Your goal is to defeat humanity by improving your abilities and earning points from infections.
Players who liked Pathogen also play
Steam players who put hours into Pathogen 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.
Mining Copper
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Top pick for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Collect copper ore and pass through various smelting equipment to produce copper plates.
Game of Gods
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Second-strongest match for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Create your own religion and battle for domination of Earth's souls. Collect souls to upgrade your religion and battle other religions to control more territory and expand. Evolve your religion to higher states and dominate earth's souls to create your own utopia here on planet earth!
EcoGenesis
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Third-strongest match for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
EcoGenesis is a 2D black-box ecosystem simulator where you need to craft an ecosystem that can withstand the test of time. You must unlock creatures and balance your environment while driving towards one of the three victory conditions in this turn-based simulation.
Beetle Uprising
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Ranked #4 for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
From atom to modern
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Ranked #5 for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
4 Civilizations
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Ranked #6 for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Four Civilisations is an indie game. It brings you back to early civilization times and lets you control the destiny of your civilization. You will compete with 3 other civilizations in the game. You will need to gather resources to advance in science and upgrade your buildings.
Ecosystem
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Ranked #7 for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
God of Failure
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Ranked #8 for Pathogen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Defend your castle from the orcish chavs, lure them into your traps and destroy them.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pathogen at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pathogen.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pathogen.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pathogen.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Pathogen.
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.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~83% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pathogen.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pathogen.
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!
Superflight
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Priced ~50% under Pathogen on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pathogen.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pathogen.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Pathogen.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pathogen.
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
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Pathogen.
『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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pathogen.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pathogen.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
of the Devil
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Frequently asked about Pathogen
- How much does Pathogen cost?
- Pathogen is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pathogen have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pathogen supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, LAN PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Pathogen?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pathogen are Mining Copper, Game of Gods, EcoGenesis.
- Who developed Pathogen?
- Pathogen was developed by LMJ Games.
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 Pathogen.
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