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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Keep Her Safe
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by managing resources, defending base, and surviving waves.
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+5.0
Kenshi
Core gameplay revolves around survival, avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Life Goes On: Done to Death
Avoiding failure by careful planning and using corpses to survive hazards.
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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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+4.0
Stacklands
Core gameplay involves managing resources and defending against threats to keep villagers alive.
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+4.0
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Touhou Fantasia / 东方梦想曲
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving overwhelming bullet patterns
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+5.0
Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing limited resources, and surviving increasingly difficult stages.
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+4.0
Call of Duty® (2003)
Health packs and careful play required to avoid death; no health regeneration.
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+5.0
Card Survival: Tropical Island
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing survival threats.
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+5.0
Caves of Qud
Survival against threats, resource management, and avoiding death are central to gameplay.
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+5.0
Darkwood
Central theme is avoiding death through resource management, barricading, and combat.
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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
Don't Starve Together
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
dotAGE
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure and overcoming threats to village survival.
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+5.0
Dwarf Fortress
Strong survival elements involving threat management, resource control, and defense.
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+4.0
Eve of Souls: Static Pod
Survival mechanics with health and sanity management, resource constraints, and threat avoidance are core gameplay.
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+4.0
Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing stealth to survive threats.
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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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+4.0
Gloomwood
Resource management, avoiding detection, and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+5.0
House of Necrosis
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Lake of Voices
Core theme revolves around survival decisions, managing threats, and consequences of failure.
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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
My Summer Car
Strong survival elements including managing hunger, thirst, stress, and avoiding death.
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