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Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Recent releases
Newer releases, in the order selected for this motivation.
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+5.0
FLATHEAD
Core gameplay centers on avoiding failure and escaping the monster by managing risk and points.
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+4.0
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
Survival mechanics like resource management and threat avoidance are core gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Nine Sols
Players must avoid death and manage resources like health and currency under threat of loss.
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+4.0
Corpse Keeper
Managing corpse decay, health, and resources to survive runs is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Stellar Initiative
Players must avoid failure by managing defenses and resources against increasingly difficult waves.
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+5.0
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and retrieving fallen party members.
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+4.0
Astrometica: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around managing oxygen, health, and resources to avoid failure.
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+5.0
Survival: Fountain of Youth
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, health, and resources to stay alive
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+5.0
Mech Engineer
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding failure, and surviving against overwhelming odds.
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+4.0
Eyes: The Horror Game
Core motivation is to avoid death and survive monster encounters through stealth and evasion.
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+4.0
MULLET MADJACK
Timer mechanic creates constant threat of failure, requiring resource (time) management and avoidance of damage.
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+4.0
The Land Beneath Us
Players must avoid damage, manage positioning, and survive enemy attacks in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Crow Country
Resource management, avoiding or confronting enemies, and puzzle solving to survive threats are core gameplay.
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+4.0
Cluckmech Oasis
Core gameplay revolves around defending the base and surviving waves of enemies under increasing threat.
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+4.0
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Core gameplay revolves around surviving enemy waves, managing resources, and escaping to new maps to avoid failure.
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+4.0
V Rising
Survival mechanics include resource gathering, managing sunlight vulnerability, and defending base.
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+4.0
Path of Achra
Players must manage resources, health, and build synergies to survive increasingly difficult enemies and cycles.
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+4.0
Genome Guardian
Gameplay centers on surviving increasingly difficult waves and managing resources like heat and health.
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+4.0
Betrayal Beach
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding threats to survive.
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+4.0
Puppet Master: The Game
Human players must avoid death and complete objectives under threat, emphasizing survival mechanics.
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+4.0
The Braves
Players must survive waves of enemies and manage resources to progress, typical of roguelike survival.
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+5.0
KUNKUN Defender
Central motivation is to survive waves of enemies using combat and defensive tactics.
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+4.0
Chrono Ark
Gameplay involves managing health, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Hexguardian
Central gameplay involves defending the castle and managing resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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