Contagion VR: Outbreak
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4h 11.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 698 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 290X, equivalent or better., 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 18 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead Onslaught ($29.99, scores 0).
More about Contagion VR: Outbreak
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 232 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 274 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.8 times as long.
The drop-off
34% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
For a couple bucks, it can be fun, but with all the bugs and devs just dipping, I cannot suggest someone playing it personally. You can bug out in the tutorial, that early only isn't a good sign. The game loads things in at around 3ft away which is a real eyesore. Guns, actually feel decent, but they added the MLG hitmarker sound when you hit zombies in the head which was funny at first, but then lost its charm and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i used to love this game until i realised it wasnt as great as other games i had, i cant even play it now because its broken and doesnt go into vr mode, the zombies are very bad and are just free models with animations that dont match their movement, i would say that this game is only good for playing the story and then never touching it again just like the devs have abandoned it moral of the story: sloppy models...
Developed and published by Monochrome, Inc., Contagion VR: Outbreak delivers a virtual reality survival horror experience that throws players into the heart of a devastating zombie epidemic. Built exclusively for VR, the game emphasizes physical interaction over conventional shooter mechanics, transforming even routine actions like reloading or swinging a weapon into moments that demand concentration. Rather than...
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Cite this score
Contagion VR: Outbreak scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/676840/contagion-vr-outbreakReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.