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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Less relaxation
High survival scores, with relaxation at +0 or below.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Enter the Gungeon
Players must avoid damage, manage limited ammo and health, and survive increasingly difficult floors.
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+4.0
Duck Game
Players must avoid death and outlast opponents in fast-paced elimination matches.
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+4.0
Noita
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding hazards, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Counter-Strike 2
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive rounds and win matches.
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+4.0
A Dance of Fire and Ice
Players must avoid failure and maintain perfect timing to progress, creating a survival-like challenge.
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+4.0
SIGNALIS
Core gameplay involves managing scarce resources, avoiding threats, and surviving hostile environments.
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+4.0
Metroid Fusion
Strong survival elements with resource management and evasion of powerful foes.
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+4.0
SWAT 4
Players must avoid failure by careful resource and risk management to keep team and civilians safe.
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+4.0
Look Outside
Survival mechanics and threat avoidance are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Mindustry
Constant threat from enemy attacks requires defense and resource management to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Super Meat Boy
Players must avoid instant death hazards and carefully manage precise movements to survive levels.
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+4.0
Insurgency
Avoiding death is critical; tactical defense and resource management (ammo, positioning) are important.
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+4.0
SCP: Secret Laboratory
Strong survival focus in escaping, avoiding threats, and managing resources.
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+4.0
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically survive enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Downwell
Players must manage health, ammo, and avoid damage to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Players must avoid death and manage threats carefully to progress through levels.
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+4.0
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Players must avoid failure (bomb explosion) through careful resource and time management.
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+4.0
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Players must avoid checkmate and manage threats across timelines, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
The Backrooms Deluxe 2
Survival elements like sanity management, resource gathering, and threat avoidance are central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Garena Free Fire Max
Survival is the main objective, involving resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense to be last…
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+4.0
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Players must avoid failure, manage resources, and keep squad members alive under threat.
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+4.0
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Players must manage squad health and revive mechanics to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Metroid Dread
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming lethal threats.
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+4.0
Arma 3
Players must manage threats, resources, and tactical defense to survive in hostile environments.
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