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Games like Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles

If Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outbreak: Epidemic, Outbreak: Lost Hope and Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark 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 Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles: Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.

2018ActionStrategyIndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Dead Drop Studios LLC
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — Steam game cover
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Faithfully recreates classic survival horror feelFixed cameras force tactical positioningMemory editing enables difficulty adjustmentAtmosphericDarkImmersive

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Steam players who put hours into Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles 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. Outbreak: Epidemic

    WHY THIS

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

    Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Outbreak: Lost Hope

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

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

    Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience the beginning of the end of Cypress Ridge in this '90s survival horror nightmare at the dawn of the zombie outbreak.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.24 USDSteam ↗
  4. CORPSE CARNIVAL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    "CORPSE CARNIVAL" is a top-down action-adventure game where you will play as Li Xiaomeng, a first-year student at the "Linge" Military Academy, and escape from a city filled with zombies and monsters alongside "Asami Yuki."

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. DARK SOULS™ II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Ranked #5 for Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Developed by FROM SOFTWARE, DARK SOULS™ II is the highly anticipated sequel to the gruelling 2011 breakout hit Dark Souls. The unique old-school action RPG experience captivated imaginations of gamers worldwide with incredible challenge and intense emotional reward.

    2014ActionRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Outbreak

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Ranked #6 for Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Heaven Dust 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

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

    Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Immortal: Unchained

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Ranked #8 for Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Unleashed and unforgiving. Can you rise to the challenge? Immortal: Unchained is the latest addition to the genre of ultra-hardcore action RPGs. Take the role of a living weapon, unleashed to stop the source of a cataclysmic event threatening to end all worlds.

    2018ActionAdventureRPG10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    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 ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

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

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Dead Drop Studios LLC

Other recommendable Steam games by Dead Drop Studios LLC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Outbreak: The New Nightmare

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure2.59 USDSteam ↗
  2. Outbreak

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Outbreak: Lost Hope

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Outbreak: Epidemic

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Outbreak: Endless Nightmares

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Outbreak: Contagious Memories

    WHY THIS

    Shares fixed camera navigation, tank controls and an atmospheric mood with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Dinobreak

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Dead Drop Studios LLC, the studio behind Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.

    Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles

How much does Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles cost?
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles are Outbreak: Epidemic, Outbreak: Lost Hope, Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split.
Who developed Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles?
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles was developed by Dead Drop Studios LLC.

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