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Survival
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
Farthest Frontier
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resource scarcity, and defending the settlement to survive.
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+4.0
Hellish Quart
Players must avoid fatal strikes and manage stamina and positioning to survive duels.
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+4.0
Reigns
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death by managing resources and balancing factions.
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+4.0
RUNGORE: Beginner Experience
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging, fast-paced encounters.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Players must manage threats, defend cities, and maintain resources to survive and thrive.
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+4.0
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Players must manage resources and avoid being overwhelmed by zombie hordes to survive.
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+4.0
SULFUR
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically extract to survive and progress.
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+4.0
UBERMOSH:WRAITH
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and managing threats in a hostile arena environment.
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+4.0
Vampire Hunters
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing
Central theme of surviving emotional abuse and maintaining personal boundaries under threat.
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+4.0
Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue
Players must manage limited resources and avoid losing units to progress.
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+4.0
PAKO 2
Avoiding capture and destruction is central; players manage resources and evade threats.
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+4.0
Cataclismo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by managing resources and defending against waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Core gameplay involves managing resources and stress to avoid failure and stay alive.
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+4.0
Curious Expedition 2
Survival elements include managing sanity, health, resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+4.0
Hollow Survivors: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage, managing resources, and surviving increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress through stages.
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+4.0
Templar Battleforce
Players must manage resources, heat, and tactical positioning to survive overwhelming enemy forces.
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+4.0
Vagante
Players must avoid death from traps and enemies, manage health carefully, and survive through difficult levels.
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+4.0
Aliens: Dark Descent
Core gameplay involves managing threats, resources, and stress to keep marines alive.
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+4.0
Blood Vial
Constant health drain and enemy threats create a strong survival challenge.
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+4.0
Bombergrounds: Reborn
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and being last player standing.
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+4.0
Brigand: Oaxaca
Resource management, health, hunger, and threat avoidance are important gameplay aspects.
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+4.0
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats; survival is a key gameplay motivation.
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