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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Survival + Competence
A strong dose of survival and competence in the same game.
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+4.0
Bit Blaster XL
Players focus on avoiding death through dodging and resource management in a high-risk environment.
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+4.0
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
Avoiding threats and managing resources to keep dwarves alive is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Homicipher: Demo
Players must avoid danger by correctly interpreting language to survive and escape.
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+4.0
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy: Prologue
Players must avoid damage and survive complex bullet patterns to progress.
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+4.0
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Gameplay involves managing resources, overcoming threats, and surviving in a hostile wasteland.
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+4.0
Fortnite
Core gameplay revolves around survival against other players and environmental hazards like the storm.
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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
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
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
Orcs Must Die! 2
Core gameplay revolves around survival against waves of enemies and resource management.
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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
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix
Permadeath and resource management create survival challenge
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+4.0
Gumballs & Dungeons
Players must manage resources and avoid failure in roguelike dungeons, emphasizing survival mechanics.
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+4.0
Voidigo
Players must avoid damage, manage health and ammo, and strategically defeat bosses to progress.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Zombies mode and campaign emphasize survival against waves of enemies and threats.
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+4.0
Dead Space (2008)
Strong survival elements including resource scarcity, health management, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Kingdom: Classic
Core gameplay revolves around surviving increasingly difficult enemy attacks and protecting the kingdom.
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+4.0
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and protecting neighbors.
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