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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
Spectral Scream
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
TUNG
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and escaping threats.
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+5.0
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and retrieving fallen party members.
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+5.0
Devil of the Plague
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving escalating threats.
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+5.0
Out There: Ω Edition
Core gameplay centers on managing resources to avoid death and continue journey.
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+5.0
Subterrain
Core gameplay revolves around managing survival needs, infection, and resource scarcity.
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+5.0
Welcome to the Game III
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
The Highrise
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Strong focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
PONE
Central theme of avoiding death, managing threats, and completing objectives under pressure.
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+5.0
Subsistence
Central focus on overcoming threats, managing resources, and staying alive in harsh conditions
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+5.0
Warlords Under Siege
Core motivation is to survive increasingly difficult waves and protect the base.
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+5.0
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving hostile threats.
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+5.0
Fate of the World: Tipping Point
Central theme is survival of humanity and the planet through managing threats and crises.
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+5.0
Strayed
Central theme is resource gathering, base building, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Core theme is survival against overwhelming odds and managing crises
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+5.0
Bureau of Contacts
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing sanity, and surviving hostile environments.
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+5.0
DarkSwitch
Central theme is survival against environmental and monster threats, managing resources and mental health.
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+5.0
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, stamina, stress, bladder, and aging to stay alive.
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+5.0
Backrooms: Extractions
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Door in the Woods
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Permafrost
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats from environment, hunger, cold, and hostile NPCs.
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+5.0
The Gate Must Stand
Core gameplay revolves around defending the gate and surviving waves of enemies under constant threat.
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+5.0
Damned
Central motivation is avoiding death and escaping threats.
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