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Games like Outbreak Island
Tiny Magicians · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 77 % positive of 995 reviews, as of Oct 28
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
24 games that play like Outbreak Island and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Forest, Sons Of The Forest and Project Zomboid.
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Plays and looks like Outbreak Island
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Outbreak Island
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
The Forest
94 % positive of 584,152
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
Sons Of The Forest
87 % positive of 287,847
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
Project Zomboid
94 % positive of 371,769
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Crafting
7 Days to Die
87 % positive of 274,834
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
Unturned
91 % positive of 565,034
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Crafting
The Infected
83 % positive of 6,604
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
DYSMANTLE
90 % positive of 11,073
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Exploration
HumanitZ
73 % positive of 11,473
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
Night of the Dead
77 % positive of 10,409
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Crafting
Mist Survival
74 % positive of 13,719
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
Pacific Drive
83 % positive of 21,773
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Exploration
DayZ
78 % positive of 390,100
Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
More matches
- Green Hell84 % positive of 80,770Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Exploration
- State of Decay83 % positive of 15,286Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
- Urge90 % positive of 505Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
- SurrounDead89 % positive of 25,107Shared: Survival · Exploration · RPG
- Darkwood93 % positive of 22,514Shared: Survival · Horror · Exploration
- DESOLATE68 % positive of 6,247Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
- Taora : Beginning86 % positive of 2,238Shared: Survival · Sandbox · RPG
- Radiation Island80 % positive of 592Shared: Survival · Horror · Crafting
- Just Survive59 % positive of 76,700Shared: Survival · Horror · Sandbox
- Total Chaos85 % positive of 1,606
- How to Survive82 % positive of 13,995Shared: Survival · Crafting · RPG
- Human Host82 % positive of 1,036Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Crafting
By look
Looks like Outbreak Island
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
A.I.L.A
80 % positive of 898
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
80 % positive of 108,321
SILENT HILL 2
94 % positive of 44,436
Pacific Drive
83 % positive of 21,773
Choo-Choo Charles
91 % positive of 16,556
The Outlast Trials
91 % positive of 100,208
Slender: The Arrival
87 % positive of 7,957
Outlast 2
90 % positive of 54,710
SURV1V3
82 % positive of 1,625
VLADiK BRUTAL
89 % positive of 9,611
Survive the Nights
68 % positive of 4,775
BIGFOOT
83 % positive of 17,879
More matches
- Mist Survival74 % positive of 13,719
- SCUM73 % positive of 99,049
- Back 4 Blood69 % positive of 55,372
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre68 % positive of 19,872
- State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition83 % positive of 59,497
- Miscreated66 % positive of 23,039
- Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek76 % positive of 7,738
- Children of the Sun91 % positive of 2,049
- CONVRGENCE87 % positive of 1,780
- 35MM70 % positive of 3,520
- I'm counting to 6...82 % positive of 740
- Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo82 % positive of 716
At a glance
What games like Outbreak Island have in common
- The tags they share most often with Outbreak Island: Survival (23 of 24), Sandbox (19) and Horror (13).
- They came out between 2013 and 2026, 2 of them after Outbreak Island (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: The Forest (94 % positive of 584,152).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.