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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Survival + Strategy
A strong dose of survival and strategy in the same game.
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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
Long Live The Queen
Central motivation is to avoid death and navigate threats to reach coronation.
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+5.0
Resident Evil
Central theme is survival against limited resources, managing threats, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Spelunky
Central motivation is avoiding death and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Spelunky 2
Avoiding death and managing resources is central to gameplay.
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+5.0
The Long Dark
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death from cold, hunger, thirst, injury, and wildlife threats.
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+5.0
X-COM: UFO Defense
Core motivation is to survive alien threats through resource and squad management under pressure.
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+5.0
Banished
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats like starvation, cold, disease, and disasters.
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+5.0
Barony
Strong survival elements including resource management, avoiding death traps, and overcoming threats.
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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
Amnesia: The Bunker
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
From Glory To Goo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, defending base, and managing 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
Original War
Core gameplay revolves around survival of limited units and overcoming threats with scarce resources.
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+5.0
Armoured Commander II
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving battles.
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+5.0
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
The Last Spell
Central theme is survival against relentless enemy waves and managing scarce resources.
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+5.0
Invisible, Inc.
Survival under pressure with resource management and threat avoidance central.
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+5.0
Cogmind
Avoiding damage, managing resources, and staying alive are key challenges.
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+5.0
HyperRogue
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving increasingly difficult enemy encounters.
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+5.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Avoiding death and managing threats is a core motivation; no respawns in classic modes increase stakes.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Core gameplay is about avoiding death by managing threats and resources to survive until morning.
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+5.0
Terraformental
Core gameplay involves managing resources to survive and progress through hostile environments.
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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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