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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Top picks
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
Void Bastards
Players must manage health, oxygen, ammo, and resources to avoid death and progress.
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+4.0
Wizardry 8
Players must manage resources, positioning, and tactics to survive difficult encounters and threats.
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+4.0
Yoko no Hanashi
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and escaping dangerous situations.
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+4.0
Soul Dossier
Survivors must avoid death and complete objectives under threat from killers.
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+4.0
50 years
Core gameplay is about surviving waves of attacks for 50 turns.
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+4.0
Biters & Bullets: Prologue
Central theme is surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and avoiding death.
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+4.0
BlazeRush
Modes like Death Race emphasize survival by avoiding elimination and staying ahead of threats.
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+4.0
Buriedbornes - Dungeon RPG
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging dungeon runs.
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+4.0
DG2: Defense Grid 2
Players must prevent failure by defending cores, managing resources, and surviving increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding ghost threats and completing objectives to survive.
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+4.0
Nauticrawl
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Core gameplay involves avoiding death from traps and enemies, managing timing and stealth.
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+4.0
Over the Counter
Players must avoid bankruptcy and manage threats like lawsuits and expenses to survive and succeed.
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+4.0
Subterror
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving rising challenges.
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+4.0
The Sapling
Core gameplay involves species survival, resource management, and overcoming environmental challenges.
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+4.0
The Walking Trade
Players manage resources, defend against threats, and maintain shop operations to survive.
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+4.0
This is a Ghost
Strong survival elements with health management, avoiding death, and strategic defense against ghosts.
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+4.0
Tower Dominion
Strong emphasis on avoiding failure by managing resources, building defenses, and surviving increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
Game emphasizes resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense to stay alive.
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+4.0
UnderRail
Survival elements present in resource management, combat difficulty, and exploration hazards.
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+4.0
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Resource management (blood, hunger, masquerade) and avoiding death are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
We Need To Go Deeper
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing resources, and surviving hostile environments.
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+4.0
You Will Die Here Tonight
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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