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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Focused on survival
Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
My Winter Car
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats from cold, hunger, fatigue, and vehicle reliability.
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+4.0
Overload Playable Teaser 3.0
Survival challenge mode and gameplay emphasize avoiding death and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
PEAK
Core gameplay involves managing stamina, hunger, and environmental hazards to survive.
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+5.0
Project Zomboid
Central motivation is avoiding death through managing threats, resources, and environment in a hostile world.
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+5.0
Rain World
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and enduring threats.
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+4.0
Rhythm Witch: Beat Death
Core gameplay involves surviving waves of enemies and managing resources and positioning.
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+5.0
Risk of Rain 2
Core motivation is to survive increasingly difficult threats and manage resources.
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+5.0
Stay Out of the House
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Super Bit Blaster XL
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and avoiding death.
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+5.0
System Shock® 2 (1999)
Strong survival mechanics with resource scarcity, weapon degradation, and enemy threats.
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+4.0
Trench Face
Strong survival elements with resource scarcity, managing health and ammo, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
UnReal World
Core focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental and human threats.
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+4.0
Wasteland Bites
Core gameplay involves managing threats and stress to survive shifts and progress through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Abandoned Archive
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive; game emphasizes overcoming threats and staying alive.
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+5.0
Alan Wake II
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming hostile 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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+4.0
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
Core gameplay revolves around surviving enemy waves and managing resources to sustain settlements.
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+4.0
Causality
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing limited saves and resources, and surviving enemy encounters.
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+5.0
Gothic 1
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
GRADIUS ORIGINS
Players must avoid death and manage power-ups carefully to survive challenging levels and bosses.
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+5.0
Into the Radius VR
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, weapon maintenance, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
It Comes In Waves
Core gameplay revolves around managing water resources to avoid death and complete objectives.
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+4.0
Lake of Creatures
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+5.0
PAYDAY™ The Heist
Players must avoid death and arrest, manage resources, and survive escalating threats.
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