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2025PC, Steam Deck playable78 % positive14.99 €

An open-world survival horror sandbox on a remote island where a mysterious outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. You craft, build and defend your base to make it through.

  • Building and crafting
  • Resources and survival
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Open world
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In short: Games like Outbreak Island

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Outbreak Island special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sons of the Forest

97 %Match

2024PC88 % positive28.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Outbreak Island: scarce resources and survival, building and crafting as well as a sandbox with your own goals.

Stranded on a remote island, you craft, build and fight to survive while cannibals and mutants hunt you. Play solo or in co-op, delve into dark caves, and fortify a base, with AI companions helping along the way.

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After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

7 Days to Die

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The Infected

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An open-world survival crafting game in which a parent searches the forest for missing campers. You build a base and fend off wildlife and infected Vambies, a vampire-zombie hybrid.

CastleMiner Z

Building and crafting

A blocky sandbox survival game set in an endless world: you build, craft weapons and tools, and fight off zombies and other monsters alone or with friends.

Night of the Dead

Open world

You survive on a vast zombie-infested island, gathering resources, hunting, cooking and building bases and fortresses. Traps help you steer and fend off waves of zombies in this survival-crafting game.

Radiation Island

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A survival game set on a mysterious island in a parallel reality after the Philadelphia Experiment: you gather resources, craft gear, fend off threats and look for a way back to the real world.

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