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Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Newer releases, in the order selected for this motivation.
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+4.0
Heat Death: Survival Train
Core gameplay centers on managing threats from cold, energy, and hostile drones to stay alive.
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+5.0
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Strong survival elements with resource management and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Astrometica
Core gameplay revolves around managing oxygen, food, water, and defending against threats.
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+4.0
SchoolBoy Runaway
Core gameplay involves avoiding failure and staying undetected to survive and escape.
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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
Granny: Escape Together
Core gameplay involves avoiding Granny and Grandpa to survive and escape.
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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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+4.0
The Thing: Remastered
Core gameplay revolves around survival mechanics, managing threats, and resource use.
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+5.0
Unknown Tapes
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and surviving hostile dinosaurs.
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+4.0
Entropy Survivors
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Void Crew
Players must manage ship health, resources, and avoid failure to survive missions and progress.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Roner's: Remastered
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing threats to survive each night.
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+4.0
ICBM: Escalation
Gameplay emphasizes avoiding defeat, managing threats, and maintaining military and territorial control.
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+5.0
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, stamina, hunger, radiation, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Lake of Creatures
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Mineral Defense
Core motivation is to survive waves by managing resources and defenses effectively.
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+4.0
Epic Auto Towers
Players must survive waves of enemies and bosses through careful planning and tower upgrades.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION
Players must avoid losing the ball and manage threats to stay alive and continue scoring.
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+4.0
Menace from the Deep
Survival mechanics like health, sanity, and fuel management are core gameplay elements.
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+4.0
ZEPHON
Players manage resources and units to survive threats from enemies and neutral factions.
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+4.0
NO STRANGERS
Strong survival element with players trying to avoid death and complete objectives under threat.
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+4.0
Tower Factory
Players must survive waves of enemies and manage resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Metro Awakening
Resource management, avoiding death, and strategic defense are key gameplay aspects.
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