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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Survival + Competence
A strong dose of survival and competence in the same game.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Demon's Souls
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Bloodborne
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming deadly threats.
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+5.0
Vintage Story
Core gameplay centers on realistic survival challenges including hunger, temperature, and environmental threats.
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+5.0
Oxygen Not Included
Core gameplay centers on overcoming threats and maintaining colony survival.
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+5.0
Ultimate Custom Night
Core gameplay is about managing resources and avoiding failure to survive the night.
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+5.0
The Binding of Isaac
Strong survival elements with resource and health management to avoid death.
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+5.0
FTL: Faster Than Light
Strong survival theme with resource management, threat avoidance, and permadeath mechanics.
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+5.0
Super Hexagon
Core gameplay is about avoiding failure and surviving increasingly difficult obstacles.
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+5.0
Just Shapes & Beats
Core gameplay is about avoiding damage and staying alive through challenging bullet patterns.
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+5.0
My Summer Car
Strong survival elements including managing hunger, thirst, stress, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing threats, and keeping the facility operational.
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+5.0
Nuclear Throne
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in hostile environments.
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+5.0
White Knuckle
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+5.0
PAYDAY™ The Heist
Players must avoid death and arrest, manage resources, and survive escalating threats.
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+5.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strong survival theme with resource management and threat avoidance critical to success.
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+5.0
Dwarf Fortress
Strong survival elements involving threat management, resource control, and defense.
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+5.0
Rain World
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and enduring threats.
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+5.0
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing wounds, and tactical defense; survival is challenging and…
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+5.0
No More Room in Hell
Central motivation is avoiding death and managing scarce resources to survive zombie threats.
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+5.0
Risk of Rain (2013)
Central theme of surviving hostile environments with resource and time management.
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+5.0
Long Live The Queen
Central motivation is to avoid death and navigate threats to reach coronation.
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+5.0
Devil Daggers
Core gameplay revolves around surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves as long as possible.
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+5.0
Spelunky
Central motivation is avoiding death and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Spelunky 2
Avoiding death and managing resources is central to gameplay.
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