Games like Patient Zero: Plague Idle
If Patient Zero: Plague Idle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Next Reign: Kingdom, Halloween Store Simulator and Node Factory — 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 Patient Zero: Plague Idle: Patient Zero: Plague Idle is an idle / incremental outbreak builder where you create the perfect pathogen through mutation trees, global infection, long-term upgrades, and new pathogen unlocks. Turn the world into your lab.
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Next Reign: Kingdom
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Top pick for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Transform a tiny settlement into a thriving medieval kingdom in this incremental strategy game. Build your economy, command your army, and keep discovering new ways to grow with every milestone.
Halloween Store Simulator
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Second-strongest match for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Node Factory
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Third-strongest match for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
HordeFall
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Ranked #4 for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!
Pull the Lever
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Ranked #5 for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Pull the lever, send a tiny train hauling cargo. Click storms and breakdowns mid-run to protect the take. Chase jackpots, hire staff to automate the dull runs, and grow a living model railroad. You won't know the payout until it arrives.
Moose Miners
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Ranked #6 for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Mad Tower Tycoon
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Ranked #7 for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Garbage Growth
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Ranked #8 for Patient Zero: Plague Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!
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Frequently asked about Patient Zero: Plague Idle
- Is Patient Zero: Plague Idle free to play?
- Yes — Patient Zero: Plague Idle is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Patient Zero: Plague Idle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Patient Zero: Plague Idle are Next Reign: Kingdom, Halloween Store Simulator, Node Factory.
- Who developed Patient Zero: Plague Idle?
- Patient Zero: Plague Idle was developed by Game Gangsters and published by Brightika, Inc..
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 Patient Zero: Plague Idle.
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