Games like Contagion
Closest overall match: Cry of Fear (★ 3.6). Highest rated: The Forest at ★ 3.7. Quickest to finish: Cry of Fear at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Contagion — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Survival Horror, Survival and Horror. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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69%
1. Cry of Fear
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Online Co-Op and Horror and 4 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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67%
2. Betrayer
Shares Survival Horror, Survival, Horror, First-Person and Open World and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
65%
3. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Shares Survival Horror, Survival, Horror, First-Person and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
64%
4. Lucius
Shares Horror, Open World, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 59
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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64%
5. No More Room in Hell
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Includes level editor, Survival and Online Co-Op and 5 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 26%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
63%
6. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Shares Survival Horror, Survival, Horror, First-Person and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
63%
7. Ace of Spades: Battle Builder
Shares Zombies, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, First-Person and Open World and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 18%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
63%
8. ORION: Prelude
Shares Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, PvP, Online Co-Op and First-Person and 6 more tags; rated 0.7 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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62%
9. The Forest
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Horror and First-Person and 3 more tags; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
62%
10. DreadOut
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Horror and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 55
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 59%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
-
62%
11. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Shares Survival Horror, Survival, Horror, First-Person and Full controller support and 1 more tags; rated 0.7 higher.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
61%
12. No Time To Explain Remastered
Shares Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Split Screen, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Contagion?
On our similarity model, Cry of Fear is the closest match to Contagion — shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Online Co-Op and Horror and 4 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
Which game like Contagion is rated highest?
The Forest holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.7/5 from 942 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Contagion on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.