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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
Enter the Chronosphere
Players must avoid damage and manage threats carefully to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Eve of Souls: Static Pod
Survival mechanics with health and sanity management, resource constraints, and threat avoidance are core gameplay.
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+4.0
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
The Headliners
Players must avoid death and manage risks to complete photo quotas and progress.
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+4.0
Unfortunate Spacemen
Players must avoid death and complete objectives to survive and escape.
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+4.0
We Who Are About To Die
Players must manage stamina, health, and resources to survive increasingly difficult fights.
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+4.0
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Strong survival elements with resource management and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
DEAD RISING®
Strong survival theme with resource management, threat avoidance, and time constraints.
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+4.0
Farlanders: Prologue
Players must manage resources carefully to avoid colony failure and maintain population survival.
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+4.0
ICBM
Players must manage defenses and resources to avoid destruction and survive nuclear attacks.
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+4.0
Oaken Tower
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat through strategic defense and scaling.
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+4.0
Receiver 2
Strong survival elements with resource scarcity, threat avoidance, and lethal consequences.
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+4.0
Rift Wizard
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding death to progress.
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+4.0
Comatose
Resource management, avoiding damage, and strategic combat are core survival elements.
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+4.0
Deified
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat, especially in challenging boss fights and encounters.
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+4.0
Homebody
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and surviving loops by managing time and threats.
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+4.0
Ogre Chambers 2222
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage and surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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+4.0
Rhythm Witch: Beat Death
Core gameplay involves surviving waves of enemies and managing resources and positioning.
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+4.0
Super Bit Blaster XL
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Forestrike
Players must avoid failure and manage limited resources to survive encounters.
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+4.0
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid death in dangerous dungeon environments.
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+4.0
Genome Guardian
Gameplay centers on surviving increasingly difficult waves and managing resources like heat and health.
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+4.0
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
Players strive to keep their nation stable and survive political and economic threats.
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+4.0
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Strong focus on preserving units across missions; losing units impacts future gameplay and mission success.
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