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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Shortest Trip to Earth
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding failure to survive through sectors.
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+4.0
Stellar Initiative
Players must avoid failure by managing defenses and resources against increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Core gameplay revolves around keeping characters alive through choices and quick-time events under threat.
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+4.0
The Hardest Game Ever
Players must avoid death and restart, emphasizing survival through skill.
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+4.0
Basement
Players must defend their empire from threats and manage resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Beneath Oresa
Players must manage health and resources carefully to survive challenging encounters and progress.
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+4.0
Breachway
Players manage resources and avoid failure to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Hot Brass
Players must avoid failure and stay alive through careful tactics and resource management.
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+4.0
Kaiju Wars
Core gameplay centers on delaying and surviving kaiju attacks to protect scientists and complete research.
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+4.0
Remnant Records
Core gameplay involves avoiding ghost attacks, managing risk, and surviving exorcism phases.
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+4.0
Town of Salem 2
Avoiding death and elimination is a key motivation, requiring resource and threat management.
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+4.0
Cepheus Protocol
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to survive against escalating infected threats.
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+4.0
Cuban Missile Crisis
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to survive and succeed in missions.
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+4.0
Every Day We Fight
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek
Players must avoid threats and survive hostile encounters through stealth and cooperation.
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+4.0
Gnomoria
Players must manage resources and defend against threats to keep their colony alive.
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+4.0
Hordes of Hunger
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, managing health and resources under pressure.
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+4.0
Knightica
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat against increasingly difficult enemies.
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+4.0
NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Rebel Cops
Players must avoid failure and death of squad members, managing limited resources and threats.
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+4.0
Rex Rocket
Players must avoid instant death traps and manage health carefully to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Silence of the Sleep
Avoiding monsters and managing limited save points creates survival tension.
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+4.0
Twilight Wars
Managing agent health, morale, and resources to survive missions is a key gameplay aspect.
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+4.0
We. The Revolution
Players must avoid losing political support and death, managing threats and resources.
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