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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
Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic - the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress.
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+4.0
Dungeon Defenders
Players must defend crystals and survive waves of enemies, managing resources and defenses under pressure.
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+4.0
Escape the Backrooms
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive; survival mechanics are prominent.
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+4.0
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Survival elements include resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Narcissu 1st & 2nd
Themes center on coping with terminal illness and the struggle to live meaningfully despite impending death.
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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
Picayune Dreams
Players must avoid damage and survive waves and bosses; resource and skill management.
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+4.0
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Players must manage resources and defenses to survive against continuous enemy pressure.
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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
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and surviving hostile encounters.
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+4.0
Subnautica 2
Players must manage resources and navigate threats.
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+4.0
Door Kickers
Strong emphasis on avoiding failure, protecting squad members, and managing threats carefully.
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+4.0
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Players must avoid death and manage resources like armor and energy to survive against overwhelming threats.
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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
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
The narrative centers on survival themes, hardship, and overcoming adversity.
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+4.0
Orcs Must Die! 2
Core gameplay revolves around survival against waves of enemies and resource management.
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+4.0
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Monster Train 2
Players must manage resources and survive waves of enemies, emphasizing threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Species: Unknown
Players must avoid death and manage resources while completing objectives under threat from monsters.
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+4.0
StarVaders
Players must avoid failure by managing threats and resources carefully in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix
Permadeath and resource management create survival challenge
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+4.0
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
Strong survival theme with players making life-or-death decisions and managing threats.
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+4.0
Boneraiser Minions
Core gameplay centers on avoiding damage, managing health, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
DEADBOLT
Players must avoid death and manage limited resources to survive and complete objectives.
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