Games Like The Infected (2026)

Shared: Base Defense

Ten years in Early Access and Scrap Mechanic finally stuck the landing. If building physics-powered vehicles with friends while rogue Farmbots trash your farm sounds like your idea of a good Saturday, this one is ready.

Shared: Solo Experience

Laugh all you want at a trucking sim with 97% positive reviews and nearly a million Steam ratings. ETS2 is the most played chill-out co-op session you never knew you needed.

Shared: Open-World Survival

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.

Shared: Wave Defense

Round-based survival where your kill count is literally your bank balance. Eight remastered classics, a deep mod scene, and a wall you hit hard around round 20.

Shared: Crafting Depth

Three years of patches, a console launch, and a full rebrand later, New World: Aeternum is a more coherent MMO than it had any right to be after its disastrous 2021 debut. Worth a look for patient explorers, a harder sell for anyone expecting narrative depth or Souls-style combat.