Games like Plague Inc: Evolved
If Plague Inc: Evolved is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rebel Inc: Escalation, War Trains and After Inc: Revival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its high replay value, 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 →Plague Inc: Evolved is a strategy simulation released in 2016 by Ndemic Creations, available for $14.99. The game tasks players with evolving a pathogen to infect and eradicate humanity, balancing offensive evolution against humanity's defensive countermeasures across a global scale. Players describe the experience as both challenging and immersive, with reviewers noting high replay value as each playthrough demands different strategic approaches. The game features multiplayer modes and scenario creation tools, and is verified to run on Steam Deck. With 94% positive reviews from over 25,000 Steam users, the title has established itself as a prominent entry in the outbreak simulation genre.
About Plague Inc: Evolved: Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
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Rebel Inc: Escalation
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Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Top pick for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
War Trains
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Second-strongest match for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
The world as we knew it has been destroyed by the apocalypse... But the railroads have survived the war. And now you need to survive the post-apocalyptic era with their help.
After Inc: Revival
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Third-strongest match for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Bio Inc. Redemption
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Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Ranked #4 for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Corona Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
"Corona Simulator" is a sophisticated mixture of challenging strategy game and frighteningly detailed virus simulation. As a global pandemic leader, you must skillfully manage nations' resources, make tough decisions, and impose drastic measures to combat the deadly coronavirus.
Wargame: Airland Battle
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Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Ranked #6 for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Project Zomboid
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Shares an immersive mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Ranked #7 for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Cepheus Protocol
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Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Ranked #8 for Plague Inc: Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.
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Planet Smasher
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Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Like puzzles? Like explosions? Well then, let's smash some planets together... Play in 2D with keyboard and mouse, or turn it up to eleven and experience full-on planet smashing glory in Virtual Reality with the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.
Bio Inc. Redemption
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Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Weedcraft Inc
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Shares an immersive mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
Rebel Inc: Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Pandemic Panic!
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Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
We're in lockdown and you're our only hope! Grab your blaster, ready the cure and prepare to face the virus head on in this frantic, wacky and wild hospital. Don't be fooled, this is a task for only the best out there. Think you have what it takes?
Jurassic World Evolution
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Shares an immersive mood with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Reviewers of Plague Inc: Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Plague Inc: Evolved at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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
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Priced ~67% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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
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Priced ~47% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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
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Priced ~67% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~67% under Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Plague Inc: Evolved.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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 Indie and Simulation with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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 Indie with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Plague Inc: Evolved.
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Frequently asked about Plague Inc: Evolved
- Is Plague Inc: Evolved verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Plague Inc: Evolved is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Plague Inc: Evolved cost?
- Plague Inc: Evolved is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Plague Inc: Evolved have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Plague Inc: Evolved supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Plague Inc: Evolved?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plague Inc: Evolved are Rebel Inc: Escalation, War Trains, After Inc: Revival.
- Who developed Plague Inc: Evolved?
- Plague Inc: Evolved was developed by Ndemic Creations.
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