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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Less relaxation
High survival scores, with relaxation at +0 or below.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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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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+5.0
7 Days to Die
Survival mechanics are central, including managing health, hunger, thirst, and defending against threats.
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+5.0
Spelunky
Central motivation is avoiding death and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Spelunky 2
Avoiding death and managing resources is central to gameplay.
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+5.0
My Winter Car
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats from cold, hunger, fatigue, and vehicle reliability.
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+5.0
System Shock® 2 (1999)
Strong survival mechanics with resource scarcity, weapon degradation, and enemy threats.
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+5.0
Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
X-COM: UFO Defense
Core motivation is to survive alien threats through resource and squad management under pressure.
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+5.0
Barony
Strong survival elements including resource management, avoiding death traps, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Central mechanic is surviving waves of enemies and bosses for 10 or 20 minutes under increasing threat.
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+5.0
Backrooms: Escape Together
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Endling - Extinction is Forever
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and protecting offspring in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Liquidators
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding radiation and environmental hazards to survive and complete objectives.
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+5.0
Amnesia: The Bunker
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
瘟疫清零计划 Project Zero
Central theme is survival against zombie hordes, managing health, resources, and avoiding death.
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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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+5.0
Original War
Core gameplay revolves around survival of limited units and overcoming threats with scarce resources.
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+5.0
Touhou Fantasia / 东方梦想曲
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving overwhelming bullet patterns
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+5.0
Armoured Commander II
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving battles.
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+5.0
Tibia
Avoiding death and managing resources under threat is a core gameplay element.
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