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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
POLYBIUS
Players must avoid damage and manage shields to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In
Players must avoid detection and death in hostile environments with limited health recovery.
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+4.0
Wargame: Airland Battle
Managing unit survival, supplies, and avoiding losses is critical to success.
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+4.0
Wasteland Bites
Core gameplay involves managing threats and stress to survive shifts and progress through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Abandoned Archive
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive; game emphasizes overcoming threats and staying alive.
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+4.0
Cinderia
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and overcome threats to survive runs and progress.
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+4.0
Drug Dealer Simulator: Free Sample
Players must avoid police and rival threats to stay alive and maintain their business.
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+4.0
Eldritch
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome threats to progress.
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+4.0
NINJA GAIDEN 4
Players must avoid failure and manage resources in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Perennial Order
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and overcoming lethal threats.
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+4.0
Project Rhombus
Core gameplay is about surviving waves of arrows without failure.
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+4.0
RUKIMIN's Disappointing Adventure!
Players must avoid failure and death by precise timing and resourceful navigation.
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+4.0
Silver Pines
Resource management and avoiding death are key; survival horror mechanics are core to gameplay.
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+4.0
SubZero
Core theme revolves around survival in a hostile, post-apocalyptic environment with resource and threat management.
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+4.0
Super Fantasy Kingdom
Players must manage resources and defend against threats to keep their kingdom alive, emphasizing survival.
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+4.0
Swarm Queen
Gameplay revolves around avoiding defeat and managing resources to survive enemy attacks.
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+4.0
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
The Final Station
Survival mechanics central to gameplay: managing health, hunger, resources, and train functionality.
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+4.0
Tower Factory
Players must survive waves of enemies and manage resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Vivid Knight
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat to survive through dungeon floors and bosses.
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+4.0
Yggdra Union
Players must manage morale and resources carefully to avoid unit loss and failure.
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+4.0
Duck Paradox
Survival mode and managing limited lives and shields emphasize avoiding failure and staying alive.
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+4.0
Entropy
Players must manage resources, party health, and avoid permanent losses to survive.
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+4.0
Null Vector
Players must avoid damage, manage health, and survive waves and bosses to progress.
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