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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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+5.0
Project Silverfish
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress through stages.
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+4.0
Raft
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, raft integrity, and avoiding threats.
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+5.0
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing wounds, and tactical defense; survival is challenging and…
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+5.0
Risk of Rain (2013)
Central theme of surviving hostile environments with resource and time management.
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+5.0
Rogue Fable III
Strong survival elements including resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Spelunky 2
Avoiding death and managing resources is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Underlevel
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding defeat and keeping skeletons alive against threats.
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+4.0
Waves 2: Notorious
Gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing health/shields against waves of enemies.
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+5.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strong survival theme with resource management and threat avoidance critical to success.
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+4.0
Zombieville USA 3D
Primary objective is to survive increasingly difficult waves of zombies with resource and stamina management.
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+4.0
Archons
Core gameplay involves avoiding damage, managing health, and surviving waves of enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Colony Survival
Central theme is survival against zombie threats and resource management to keep colony alive.
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+5.0
Demon's Souls
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Dome Keeper
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
FINAL SPIN
Core objective is to survive roulette spins and eliminate others.
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+5.0
Jupiter Hell
Strong survival elements with resource management, threat avoidance, and overcoming deadly enemies.
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+4.0
Level Devil
Players must avoid death traps and hazards, requiring careful timing and resourceful movement.
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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
Space Beast Terror Fright
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving alien hordes.
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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
Talented
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
The Wandering Village
Core gameplay involves managing threats, resource scarcity, and keeping villagers and Onbu alive.
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+4.0
Thrive
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding extinction, managing resources, and adapting to threats.
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