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Infection Free Zone

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

What works

  • Unique real-world map generation allowing play in own hometown
  • Engaging mix of colony building, survival, and tactical combat
  • Active and responsive developers with frequent updates
  • Good value for price with many hours of gameplay
  • Strong potential for future content and improvements

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and occasional crashes
  • Ui and micromanagement can be clunky and tedious
  • Balance issues with resource scarcity and difficulty spikes
  • Limited endgame content and progression depth currently
  • Some repetitive gameplay elements and lack of multiplayer

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

  • Xenonauts

  • Xenonauts 2

  • Gnomoria

  • Shardpunk

  • FatalZone: Outbreak

More relaxing

Games that feels like Infection Free Zone but with a more relaxing feel

  • Ground of Aces

  • Odd Realm

  • Going Medieval

  • From Glory To Goo

  • Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

  • Space Haven

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Infection Free Zone but with less leadership over others

  • ZED ZONE

  • ZERO Sievert

  • Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

  • The Doors of Trithius

  • Infectonator 3: Apocalypse

  • ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)

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Infection Free Zone: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026