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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
Mindustry
Constant threat from enemy attacks requires defense and resource management to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Super Meat Boy
Players must avoid instant death hazards and carefully manage precise movements to survive levels.
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+4.0
Insurgency
Avoiding death is critical; tactical defense and resource management (ammo, positioning) are important.
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+4.0
SCP: Secret Laboratory
Strong survival focus in escaping, avoiding threats, and managing resources.
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+4.0
Insaniquarium Deluxe
Core gameplay revolves around keeping fish alive and defending against threats.
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+4.0
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
Players must prevent enemies from breaching defenses, managing resources and adapting to threats.
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+4.0
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically survive enemy encounters.
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+4.0
PAYDAY 2
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid failure to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Slay the Spire 2
Players must manage resources and avoid failure through careful planning and adaptation.
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+4.0
Downwell
Players must manage health, ammo, and avoid damage to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Players must avoid death and manage threats carefully to progress through levels.
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+4.0
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Players must avoid failure (bomb explosion) through careful resource and time management.
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+4.0
Magical Girl Witch Trials
Core theme involves survival through identifying culprits to avoid collective execution.
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+4.0
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Players must avoid checkmate and manage threats across timelines, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
Halls of Torment
Focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
The Backrooms Deluxe 2
Survival elements like sanity management, resource gathering, and threat avoidance are central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Garena Free Fire Max
Survival is the main objective, involving resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense to be last…
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+4.0
Ms. Pac-Man
Core gameplay centers on avoiding ghosts and surviving as long as possible.
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+4.0
Orbt XL
Core gameplay is about avoiding death by black hole and obstacles, managing risk.
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+4.0
Days Gone
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding threats, and staying alive in hostile world.
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+4.0
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Players must avoid failure, manage resources, and keep squad members alive under threat.
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+4.0
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Players must manage squad health and revive mechanics to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Metroid Dread
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming lethal threats.
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+4.0
Arma 3
Players must manage threats, resources, and tactical defense to survive in hostile environments.
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