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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
Sinner Maker
Core gameplay involves managing hunger, threats, and resource scarcity to keep villagers alive.
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+4.0
Soulestination
Players must carefully manage resources and avoid failure to progress through challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Storm Chasers
Avoiding damage, managing vehicle condition, and escaping storms are key survival aspects.
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+4.0
Tannenberg
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and strategically survive intense battles.
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+4.0
Tesla vs Lovecraft
Gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
Players must avoid death and manage tactical threats in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue
Survival mechanics (hunger, thirst, cold) are integral, requiring resource management and risk avoidance.
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+4.0
Untitled Ghost Game
Players must avoid ghost attacks and manage resources to survive hunts.
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+4.0
Zompiercer
Strong focus on managing hunger, thirst, stamina, and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Darwin Project
Players manage cold meter, resources, and avoid threats to stay alive in shrinking zones.
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+4.0
SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
Strong survival theme: avoid threats, manage resources, and escape the facility.
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+4.0
东方雪莲华 ~ Abyss Soul Lotus.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing shields, and surviving under time constraints.
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+4.0
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to progress through challenging missions.
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+4.0
Dodge It!
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by dodging hazards and staying alive as long as possible.
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+4.0
It Has My Face
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and outsmarting threats to survive each round.
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+4.0
Morphblade
Survival against waves of enemies is the main objective, requiring resource and risk management.
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+4.0
Quantum Protocol
Players must manage resources and avoid failure by careful planning to survive waves of enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Reloader: test_subject
Players must survive by managing ammo, reloads, and avoiding threats in tense combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Core gameplay revolves around managing health, avoiding death, and surviving increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Managing threats from other factions and the planet itself is a key challenge.
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+4.0
Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death from falling blocks and traps, emphasizing survival skills.
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+4.0
Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress, reflecting survival challenge.
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+4.0
THE LAST BLADE 2
Players must avoid defeat through skillful defense, parrying, and resource management (energy bars, special moves).
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+4.0
The Thing: Remastered
Core gameplay revolves around survival mechanics, managing threats, and resource use.
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