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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
Tallowmere
Players must avoid death through careful resource and health management; permadeath and traps create survival…
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+4.0
The Night of the Scissors
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, hiding, and escaping the killer.
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+4.0
They Are Coming
Central theme is surviving increasingly difficult waves by managing resources and defenses.
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+4.0
Xenonauts
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to survive an escalating alien threat.
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+4.0
Captain Commando
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive relentless enemy attacks and bosses.
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+4.0
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Players manage resources, health, and threats to stay alive in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Labyrinthine
Core gameplay centers on avoiding monsters, managing resources, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Lunch Lady
Core gameplay centers on avoiding capture and managing health/resources.
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+4.0
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
Players must manage health, hunger, and status effects to survive dungeon challenges and avoid failure.
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+4.0
Airships: Lost Flotilla
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in challenging roguelike runs.
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+4.0
Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000
Strong survival elements with resource management, threat avoidance, and overcoming deadly enemies.
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+4.0
Ants Took My Eyeball
Players must avoid damage, manage limited healing, and overcome threats to survive runs.
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+4.0
BATTLETECH
Players must manage resources, avoid failure, and survive challenging missions with limited forces.
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+4.0
Blazing Sails
Core gameplay involves avoiding ship destruction and staying alive in shrinking play area.
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+4.0
DAMNOSAUR
Main goal is to survive waves of enemies with limited health and resources.
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+4.0
Draft of Darkness
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Dreamscaper
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and overcome threats in progressively difficult dream levels.
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+4.0
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Players must manage threats, damage, and resource states to survive missions.
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+4.0
Inkbound
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Last Train Home
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding failure, and keeping soldiers alive in harsh conditions.
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+4.0
Leap Up no jutsu
Players strive to avoid failure and survive as long as possible in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
Puppet Master: The Game
Human players must avoid death and complete objectives under threat, emphasizing survival mechanics.
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+4.0
Rabbit Hole
Players must avoid damage, manage scarce health, and survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Scavenger SV-4
Core challenge involves managing radiation exposure, rover damage, and hostile threats to survive.
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