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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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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
Island 359™
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources, and lasting as long as possible.
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+5.0
Sandwalkers
Strong survival theme with resource management, starvation risk, and permanent death mechanics.
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+5.0
Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding detection, managing resources, and surviving enemy attacks.
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+4.0
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Survival mechanics like stamina, healing, and camouflage add to the challenge of staying alive.
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+5.0
The Red Solstice
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, resource management, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Polylithic
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding threats, and keeping the tribe alive.
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+4.0
Voices of the Void
Survival mechanics such as hunger, stamina, equipment maintenance, and threat avoidance are core gameplay elements.
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+5.0
FatalZone
Core theme is survival against zombie hordes with resource and risk management essential to success.
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+5.0
Flesh Eaters
Central theme is survival against zombie hordes with resource management and defense.
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+5.0
10 Miles To Safety
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+5.0
Beyond Contact
Core gameplay centers on managing hunger, oxygen, temperature, and defending against threats.
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+5.0
Nighthold: Number 1
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and defending against threats.
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+5.0
Beasts of Bermuda
Central theme is avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
BELOW
Strong survival mechanics including hunger, thirst, temperature, and resource management.
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+5.0
LASERS
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding lethal lasers and surviving to finish.
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+5.0
Occupy Mars: The Game
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and staying alive on Mars.
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+5.0
Oxygen
Core gameplay centers on managing resources and overcoming environmental threats to keep colony alive.
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+5.0
Dead In Bermuda
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats and avoiding failure to keep survivors alive.
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+5.0
Z Dawn
Central theme is managing threats, resources, and health to keep survivors alive in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Black Forest
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing resources, and surviving relentless threats.
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+5.0
Rogue's Tale
Central motivation is to avoid death and survive increasingly difficult threats.
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+5.0
Collision Course
Strong focus on avoiding death, managing hydration, health, and threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Death in the Water
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing threats in hostile environment.
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+5.0
Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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