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Survival
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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+4.0
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Core gameplay involves avoiding death through solving puzzles and making strategic choices.
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+4.0
氷点下30度の絶望
Story centers on survival under extreme conditions and managing desperate situations.
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+4.0
Akane
Survival against endless waves with increasing difficulty is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Dota 2
Avoiding death and managing resources under threat is a core gameplay aspect.
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+4.0
Endless ATC
Players must avoid failures such as crashes and maintain safe separation under increasing pressure.
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+4.0
Last Train Outta' Wormtown
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and escaping threats, managing resources and environment to survive.
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+4.0
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Core gameplay revolves around keeping party members alive and managing resources to survive dungeon threats.
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+4.0
Master of Orion 2
Players must manage threats, resources, and defense to survive and expand.
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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
Platypus Reclayed
Players must avoid death and manage power-ups to progress through challenging levels.
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+4.0
Seraph's Last Stand
Players must survive increasingly difficult waves, managing health and resources carefully.
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+4.0
The Deadseat
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats and managing resources to survive through levels.
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+4.0
Will You Snail?
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and overcoming threats posed by AI traps.
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+4.0
Rampage Knights
Players must avoid death and manage resources carefully to progress through permadeath runs.
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+4.0
Ancient Dungeon
Players must avoid death and manage health carefully in challenging dungeon environments.
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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
Citizen Sleeper
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding failure to survive on a hostile space station.
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+4.0
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
Players must prevent base destruction and manage threats to survive and progress.
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+4.0
DoDonPachi Resurrection
Players must avoid death and manage resources like bombs and hyper mode to survive intense bullet patterns.
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+4.0
House
Central motivation is to avoid death, manage threats, and survive hostile environment within time constraints.
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+4.0
Kingdom Two Crowns
Core gameplay involves defending against threats, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Love Love School Days
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing limited resources to survive.
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+4.0
Master of Magic Classic
Players must manage resources and defend against threats to survive and conquer.
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+4.0
ODDCORE
Managing time and health to avoid death under pressure.
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