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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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+4.0
Slay the Spire
Players must manage resources and health carefully to survive increasingly difficult challenges.
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+4.0
Counter-Strike: Source
Rounds involve avoiding death and strategic resource management to survive.
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+4.0
Palworld
Survival mechanics like resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense are core gameplay features.
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+4.0
Dead Cells
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Dying Light
Strong survival elements with resource management, threat avoidance, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Resident Evil 4
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to progress, typical of survival horror.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Civilization
Players must manage threats, resources, and defense to maintain and expand their civilization.
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+4.0
Hotline Miami
Players must avoid instant death and manage tactical positioning to survive enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Brotato
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Cuphead
Players must avoid damage and survive complex attack patterns, managing limited health and resources.
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+4.0
Half-Life
Players must manage resources and avoid threats to survive through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Phasmophobia
Avoiding ghost hunts and managing sanity are core survival elements requiring strategic play.
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+4.0
Inscryption
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat in challenging card battles, reflecting survival elements.
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+4.0
Chaos Zero Nightmare
Players must manage resources, stress, and threats to avoid failure and progress through challenging runs.
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+4.0
Valheim
Survival mechanics, resource management, and threat avoidance are central gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Buckshot Roulette
Primary goal is to avoid death and outlast opponents through strategic play.
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+4.0
HoloCure - Save the Fans!
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies and overcoming threats with resource and skill management.
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+4.0
Katana ZERO
Avoiding death is critical; players must manage threats carefully to survive.
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+4.0
Alien Swarm
Players must manage resources and avoid death while surviving waves of alien attackers.
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+4.0
Iron Snout
Core gameplay is about surviving waves of enemies with limited health.
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+4.0
ELDEN RING
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile, high-risk environment.
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+4.0
Hades II
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to progress through difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Raft
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, raft integrity, and avoiding threats.
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+4.0
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to survive waves of enemies.
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