Contagion delivers a tense, cooperative zombie survival experience that’s been praised for breathing new life into an often-stagnant genre. GamesBeat says it "aims to save the zombie game genre from itself," while RockPaperShotgun admits "Contagion does have a small role to play in the great gaming zombie apocalypse. I quite like it." Bloody-Disgusting calls it "a gory, addictive horror game that’s well worth its $20 price tag," and Canadian Online Gamers highlight its heart-pounding atmosphere as "a tense survival-based horror game." Even Hooked Gamers lauds one of its maps, declaring "Barlowe Square is one of the best levels featured in a multiplayer game."