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2025PCSteam Deck playable14.99 €

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
Sandbox with your own goals
Open world
Dread and tension

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The closest matches for Outbreak Island are Sons of the Forest, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and The Forest. 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

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2024PC88 % positive28.99 €

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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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Sandbox with your own goals

An enormously deep open-source survival roguelike in a post-apocalyptic New England where you juggle hunger, illness and zombies, build vehicles and shelters, and carve out your own goals with no fixed objective.

The Forest

Building and crafting

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

Sandbox with your own goals

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

Project Zomboid

Sandbox with your own goals

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

The Infected

Building and crafting

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

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

State of Decay

Building and crafting

A zombie survival game in an open world where you build up a home base, scavenge supplies and manage a roster of survivors with their own skills. Death is permanent for fallen characters, which gives every decision weight.

Project: Mist

Building and crafting

An open-world survival horror set on an enigmatic island, where you build a base, craft traps and siege weapons, and fight colossal monsters with an upgradable gravity gun. The mystery of the giant wall drives your exploration.

Night of the Dead

Building and crafting

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.

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