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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Newer releases, in the order selected for this motivation.
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+5.0
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Core gameplay revolves around managing limited resources and avoiding losses to survive missions.
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+4.0
School Labyrinth
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and surviving until escape.
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+4.0
Slave Zero X
Focus on avoiding death, managing health and meter, and overcoming challenging enemies.
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+4.0
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens
Strong focus on avoiding damage, managing health, and overcoming threats in procedurally generated dungeons.
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+5.0
Chromosome Evil 2
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding death, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Ball-it Hell
Players must avoid damage and survive increasingly difficult waves, emphasizing survival under pressure.
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+4.0
ESCAPE FROM BOYKISSER
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding capture and surviving the chase.
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+4.0
HELLDIVERS™ 2
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Black Gunner Wukong
Players must survive increasingly difficult enemy waves and bosses, managing resources and positioning.
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Game emphasizes resource management, avoiding damage, and overcoming threats to survive runs.
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+4.0
Don't Pee
Core gameplay revolves around survival by avoiding failure (peeing) and managing resources under pressure.
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+4.0
Dirge
Players must avoid death, manage scarce resources, and complete tasks under threat, emphasizing survival gameplay.
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+4.0
Wulin Chess
Avoiding unit death and managing resources under threat is a key gameplay driver.
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+4.0
Outcast Tales: The First Journey
Players must manage resources, health, and morale to survive encounters and progress.
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+5.0
Night Raider
Core gameplay centers on managing health, infection, fatigue, and resources to survive hostile environments.
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+4.0
Minimalist Tower Defense
Players must manage resources and defenses to survive waves; survival pressure is a key motivator.
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+4.0
Phantom Abyss
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming threats in temples.
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+4.0
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue
Survival mechanics (hunger, thirst, cold) are integral, requiring resource management and risk avoidance.
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+4.0
Remnant Records
Core gameplay involves avoiding ghost attacks, managing risk, and surviving exorcism phases.
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+4.0
New Cycle
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and population survival.
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+4.0
All Quiet in the Trenches
Core gameplay revolves around keeping squad alive and managing scarce resources under threat.
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+4.0
First Cut: Samurai Duel
Players must avoid death and manage threats carefully, emphasizing survival in combat.
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+4.0
Legendary Hoplite: Arachne’s Trial
Players must defend territory and survive waves of enemies, managing resources carefully.
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