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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Top picks
Popular, well-rated games with a strong survival score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Nobody - The Turnaround
Core gameplay revolves around overcoming threats, managing resources, and staying alive in a harsh urban environment.
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+5.0
Pitfall!
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing limited lives, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Project Winter
Strong survival elements including hunger, cold, resource gathering, and threat avoidance.
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+5.0
Angvik
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving through difficult levels with…
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+5.0
Arid
Core gameplay centers on managing hunger, thirst, fatigue, and environmental hazards to stay alive.
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+5.0
Cosmodread
Core gameplay revolves around managing oxygen, ammo, and avoiding death to survive and escape.
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+5.0
Niche - a genetics survival game
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding extinction, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Pacific Drive
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around managing scarce resources and avoiding failure to survive the siege.
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+5.0
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, threat avoidance, and overcoming dangers.
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+5.0
Wolfpack
Strong survival elements with threat of detection, damage, and resource management.
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+5.0
CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing stamina, and escaping threats.
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+5.0
Dead Signal
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and managing threats to survive until morning.
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+5.0
Dino Nest
Strong survival theme with resource management, threat avoidance, and pack preservation.
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+5.0
Frostrain 2
Survival is central theme; managing happiness, resources, and overcoming environmental threats is core gameplay.
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+5.0
The Last Plague: Blight
Core game focus is on avoiding failure, managing threats, and staying alive in harsh conditions
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+5.0
DayZ
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and staying alive on an alien planet.
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+5.0
Chicken Feet
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving encounters with the chicken.
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+5.0
Grim Nights
Survival against waves of enemies and resource management under threat is the main gameplay driver.
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+5.0
Heaven Dust 2
Strong survival elements with resource scarcity, threat avoidance, and strategic combat.
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+5.0
Visage
Core gameplay involves survival mechanics like sanity management, avoiding death, and resource use.
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+5.0
Agar.io
Primary goal is survival against larger players while growing stronger, emphasizing avoidance and defense.
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+5.0
Home Behind
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, mood, and health to survive a hostile environment.
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