Games like Pathogen: Survival
If Pathogen: Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strike Team Delta, Zombie Prison Break and Code-Black — 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.
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Strike Team Delta
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Top pick for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pathogen: Survival.
Strike Team Delta is a gripping first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. Battle hordes of undead, team up with friends, and reclaim our world. Survival is in your hands.
Zombie Prison Break
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
This game has a fun aesthetic along with polished mechanics. Every gun is something unique that you most likely haven't seen in other games. The prison/map has different path options giving good replayability.
Code-Black
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
A First-Person Single-Player Zombie Survival game where you, "Rugir J.z" live through the initial events of a mass zombie outbreak, shoot, kill, upgrade, explore. Do you think you can survive, or possibly escape…
Zombie Hunter: D-Day
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
The apocalypse is here. Zombies flood in from all sides. You have 80 days until the rescue team arrives. Your desperate struggle for survival begins now!
The Last Town: Excape
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
《The Last Town》Is a first person shooter, tower defense, strategy, survival in one of the independent game.Using equipment to resist the corpses, more than 20 guns, accessories, consumables, mountable defenses were designed for the game, and a real physics engine was used to simulate reality
World War Z
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pathogen: Survival.
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
Death in the Water 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
Dodge and carve your way through swarms of terrifying sea creatures controlled by Death, a vicious giant mind-controlling Kraken that haunts your every move. Scavenge for hidden treasure to unlock weapons, and upgrades to help you in your fight for survival. Every dive reveals a new nightmare.
Ultimate Zombie Defense 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pathogen: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
4-player co-op, zombie slaying, base building, boss battling mayhem! Cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses in Ultimate Zombie Defense 2!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pathogen: Survival at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
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 Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pathogen: Survival.
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 Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pathogen: Survival.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Pathogen: Survival.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pathogen: Survival.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pathogen: Survival.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pathogen: Survival.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pathogen: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pathogen: Survival.
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!
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 Pathogen: Survival.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Pathogen: Survival.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pathogen: Survival.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
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 Pathogen: Survival.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Zombie Hunter: D-Day
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
The apocalypse is here. Zombies flood in from all sides. You have 80 days until the rescue team arrives. Your desperate struggle for survival begins now!
Death in the Water 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
Dodge and carve your way through swarms of terrifying sea creatures controlled by Death, a vicious giant mind-controlling Kraken that haunts your every move. Scavenge for hidden treasure to unlock weapons, and upgrades to help you in your fight for survival. Every dive reveals a new nightmare.
Ultimate Zombie Defense 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogen: Survival.
4-player co-op, zombie slaying, base building, boss battling mayhem! Cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses in Ultimate Zombie Defense 2!
Frequently asked about Pathogen: Survival
- How much does Pathogen: Survival cost?
- Pathogen: Survival is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pathogen: Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pathogen: Survival are Strike Team Delta, Zombie Prison Break, Code-Black.
- Who developed Pathogen: Survival?
- Pathogen: Survival was developed by SillySausage.
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