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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Viking Frontiers: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around managing survival needs, threats, and resource scarcity.
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+5.0
Warlords Under Siege
Core motivation is to survive increasingly difficult waves and protect the base.
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+5.0
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Survival against difficult enemies and resource management is central to gameplay.
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+5.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Avoiding death and managing threats is a core motivation; no respawns in classic modes increase stakes.
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+4.0
Space Invaders
Focus on avoiding enemy fire and preventing aliens from reaching the bottom to survive.
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+4.0
Aooni
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by escaping the Oni and managing limited safe spaces.
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+4.0
Castle of no Escape 2
Survival against enemies, traps, and resource scarcity is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Crisis VRigade
Players must avoid death and manage limited health to progress through hostile scenarios.
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+4.0
Evolings
Core gameplay involves managing resources and team survival against threats, with permanent death of creatures.
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+4.0
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Players must manage threats, resources, and environmental dangers to survive.
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+4.0
Mimicry
Core gameplay involves survival, avoiding death, and resource management.
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+5.0
Night of the Dead
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing resources, and defending against threats.
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+4.0
One More Dungeon
Permadeath and resource scarcity require careful survival tactics.
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+5.0
Ostranauts
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding death in harsh space environments.
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+5.0
SAHUR: Escape Together
Central theme is avoiding death, managing threats, and overcoming hostile environment to escape.
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+4.0
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Players must avoid death, manage limited health and ammo, and restart levels upon failure, emphasizing survival.
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+4.0
Swarm Grinder
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by managing health and fuel while overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and retrieving fallen party members.
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+4.0
Ark of Charon
Core gameplay involves surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Artificial Extinction
Core gameplay involves defending against waves of enemies to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Asylum: Patient Zero
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats and surviving encounters.
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+4.0
ATOMINE
Players must avoid damage and survive waves of enemies and bosses; permadeath adds survival tension.
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+4.0
Berserk or Die
Central gameplay loop is about surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves and managing resources like stamina.
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+5.0
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Core gameplay centers on overcoming threats, resource management, and staying alive.
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