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Games like Contagion VR: Outbreak

If Contagion VR: Outbreak is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Arizona Sunshine® and SURV1V3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cinematic and immersive. 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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About Contagion VR: Outbreak: Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!

2020ActionIndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDWindowsby Monochrome, Inc
Contagion VR: Outbreak — Steam game cover
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Arcade minigames add unique vr experienceMultiple voiced campaigns with different perspectivesWeapon handling feels surprisingly immersive for vrAtmosphericCinematicImmersive

Players who liked Contagion VR: Outbreak also play

Steam players who put hours into Contagion VR: Outbreak 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.

  1. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Top pick for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Arizona Sunshine®

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Second-strongest match for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. SURV1V3

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Fallout 4 VR

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Ranked #4 for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.

    2017RPG59.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Propagation VR

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Ranked #5 for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?

    2020ActionFreeSteam ↗
  6. After the Fall®

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Ranked #6 for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.

    2021ActionAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Walking Dead Onslaught

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Ranked #7 for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    There’s no rest when survival is on the line. Step into AMC’s The Walking Dead and prepare for an onslaught of walkers as you assume the roles of your favorite characters from the show, and confront the horrors and humanity of this apocalyptic new world.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Contagion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Ranked #8 for Contagion VR: Outbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Contagion VR: Outbreak

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Resident Evil

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Reviewers of Contagion VR: Outbreak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. No More Room in Hell

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Reviewers of Contagion VR: Outbreak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

    2013ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. SURV1V3

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Contagion VR: Outbreak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Saints and Sinners

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Reviewers of Contagion VR: Outbreak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Give a life to Sinner in Dark Medieval Era or join the Saints to find Sinner among them and execute him front of others. With your 4-8 friends or other players use in-game chat or voice chat to find who is Sinner or prove that you are not a Sinner!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. REQUISITION VR

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Reviewers of Contagion VR: Outbreak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    REQUISITION VR is a first physics-based co-op game where you can use duct tape to link any objects together to create a unique weapon. You can experiment with crafting, connecting any unthinkable combinations: a katana + a circular saw, or an axe + a ball. Inspired by Dead Rising & Walking Dead: S&S

    2023ActionAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Contagion VR: Outbreak at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Final Revelation

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Contagion VR: Outbreak on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?

    2020SimulationRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Contagion VR: Outbreak.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Contagion VR: Outbreak

Does Contagion VR: Outbreak work on Steam Deck?
Contagion VR: Outbreak is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Contagion VR: Outbreak cost?
Contagion VR: Outbreak is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Contagion VR: Outbreak?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Contagion VR: Outbreak are The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Arizona Sunshine®, SURV1V3.
Who developed Contagion VR: Outbreak?
Contagion VR: Outbreak was developed by Monochrome, Inc.

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