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Avoiding failure or staying alive
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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
Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and completing objectives under pressure.
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+4.0
Super Crate Box
Players must avoid death from enemies and hazards, managing threats to survive longer.
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+4.0
Sword Rogue
Core gameplay involves avoiding damage and surviving increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
System Shock
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive challenging bullet patterns and boss fights.
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+4.0
Windrose
Survival mechanics and threat management are core gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Alina of the Arena
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage, managing resources, and surviving tough encounters.
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+4.0
Bogos Binted?
Game modes involve avoiding elimination and outlasting opponents.
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+4.0
Echoes+
Players must avoid damage and manage health to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Flicker of Hope
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death by managing wax and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically survive difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Lovely Planet
One-hit deaths and avoidance of hazards require careful survival tactics and precision.
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+4.0
PULSAR: Lost Colony
Players must manage threats, resource limits, and ship integrity to survive.
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+4.0
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and tactical positioning to survive.
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+4.0
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
The King is Watching
Players must manage resources and defenses to survive increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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+4.0
WORLD OF HORROR
Gameplay centers on managing health, sanity, and time to avoid failure and defeat eldritch threats.
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+4.0
Zombieville USA 3D
Primary objective is to survive increasingly difficult waves of zombies with resource and stamina management.
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+4.0
Ball-it Hell
Players must avoid damage and survive increasingly difficult waves, emphasizing survival under pressure.
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+4.0
Cat in the Box
Players must avoid threats and manage limited save resources, emphasizing survival and caution.
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+4.0
Dear Magical Girls
Core gameplay involves defending and surviving waves of enemies with resource management.
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+4.0
Golden Treasure: The Great Green
Survival mechanics and resource management are key gameplay elements with real consequences.
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+4.0
Overload Playable Teaser 3.0
Survival challenge mode and gameplay emphasize avoiding death and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Primordialis
Players must avoid death and manage resources and threats to progress through increasingly dangerous biomes.
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