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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
Catacomb Kids
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing limited resources, and surviving overwhelming enemy forces.
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+5.0
DinoSystem
Central theme is avoiding death through managing threats, resources, and environmental challenges.
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+5.0
Enter The Backrooms
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Mud and Blood
Survival against overwhelming odds and managing limited resources is a key gameplay focus.
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+5.0
TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-
Strong focus on avoiding failure, surviving high speeds, and managing resources under pressure.
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+5.0
The Bottom of the Well
Core gameplay revolves around surviving nuclear apocalypse through resource management, choices, and character stats.
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+5.0
Dead Age
Core gameplay revolves around managing scarce resources, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Endoparasitic 2
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Europa Universalis III Complete
Players must manage threats, rebellions, and wars to keep their nation alive and thriving.
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+5.0
Final Sentence
Core mechanic is survival by avoiding mistakes and outtyping opponents under threat of elimination.
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+5.0
Skirmish Line
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing scarce resources.
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+5.0
Here Comes The Swarm
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and defending the base.
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+5.0
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Strong survival elements with resource management and threat avoidance.
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+5.0
Tin Can
Core gameplay is about avoiding failure and managing limited resources to stay alive.
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+5.0
Wick
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving until dawn under increasing threats.
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+5.0
ASKA
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, resource scarcity, and environmental challenges to stay alive.
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+5.0
Returnal™
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Core gameplay revolves around managing limited resources and avoiding losses to survive missions.
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+5.0
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
Central motivation is to survive waves of enemies and avoid being overrun.
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+5.0
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Central theme is avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+5.0
Fright Train
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and maintaining train integrity under threat.
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+5.0
Planetbase
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats and keeping colonists alive in hostile environments
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+5.0
Xenopurge
Core motivation is to keep squad alive and complete missions under threat and resource constraints.
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