Games like Patient 0
If Patient 0 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strike Team Delta, Dying Light and GTFO — 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 0: Patient Zero is a single player/co-op first-person action survival horror! Experience what it would be like to be at ground zero of a actual unscripted, organically growing zombie outbreak! "No badass heroes here....just survivors!"
Players who liked Patient 0 also play
Steam players who put hours into Patient 0 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.
Strike Team Delta
WHY THIS
Top pick for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patient 0.
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.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patient 0.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
GTFO
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patient 0.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patient 0.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patient 0.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patient 0.
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival is a horror game that is available in two modes. Online mode lets one or more players take on the role of animatronics, ready to crush everyone and everything. The other three are survivors. How did this happen? You’ll have to find out!
The Persistence
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patient 0.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
Killing Floor 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Patient 0 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patient 0.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Patient 0.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Patient 0.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Patient 0.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Patient 0.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Patient 0.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Patient 0.
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 Patient 0.
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.).
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Patient 0.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Patient 0.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Patient 0.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Frequently asked about Patient 0
- Does Patient 0 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Patient 0 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Patient 0?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Patient 0 are Strike Team Delta, Dying Light, GTFO.
- Who developed Patient 0?
- Patient 0 was developed by Dat Creative Impulse.
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 0.
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