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Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Top picks
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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+5.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strong survival theme with resource management and threat avoidance critical to success.
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+5.0
Dwarf Fortress
Strong survival elements involving threat management, resource control, and defense.
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+5.0
Rain World
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and enduring threats.
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+5.0
Against the Storm
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resource scarcity, and staying alive through storms.
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+5.0
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving threats through careful management.
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+5.0
Alien: Isolation
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and outsmarting threats.
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+5.0
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing wounds, and tactical defense; survival is challenging and…
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Central motivation is to survive each night by avoiding death from animatronic attacks.
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+5.0
No More Room in Hell
Central motivation is avoiding death and managing scarce resources to survive zombie threats.
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+5.0
Risk of Rain (2013)
Central theme of surviving hostile environments with resource and time management.
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+5.0
DEVOUR
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving against threats.
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+5.0
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure and surviving threats through resource and time management.
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+5.0
Empires of the Undergrowth
Central motivation is to keep colony and queen alive against environmental threats
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+5.0
Grimshire
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding starvation to keep the village alive.
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+5.0
Caves of Qud
Survival against threats, resource management, and avoiding death are central to gameplay.
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+5.0
PUMPKIN PANIC
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Long Live The Queen
Central motivation is to avoid death and navigate threats to reach coronation.
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+5.0
Cry of Fear
Survival horror mechanics emphasize avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Devil Daggers
Core gameplay revolves around surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves as long as possible.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Core gameplay is about avoiding death by managing threats and reacting to dangers, emphasizing survival.
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+5.0
Gothic 1
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
It Steals
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving monster encounters.
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+5.0
Resident Evil
Central theme is survival against limited resources, managing threats, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
SCP – Containment Breach
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing health and stamina, and escaping threats.
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