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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
Paradise
Survival on a deserted island with resource scarcity and threats is a key narrative element.
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+4.0
QuiVr
Players must defend gates and survive waves; failure results in game over.
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+4.0
Reignfall
Core gameplay centers on defending against waves and managing resources to avoid defeat.
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+4.0
Shelter
Core gameplay revolves around survival of mother badger and cubs against starvation, predators, and hazards.
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+4.0
SpellRogue
Survival elements present through managing health, resources, and overcoming threats in roguelike runs.
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+4.0
Super Meat Boy 3D
Players must avoid hazards and survive through precise platforming to progress.
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+4.0
The Ship: Murder Party
Players must avoid detection, manage resources and needs, and survive against hunters and environment.
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+4.0
TOKOYO: The Tower of Perpetuity
Core gameplay centers on avoiding damage, managing limited attack opportunities, and surviving increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
Velocibox
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding obstacles and surviving as long as possible to progress.
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+4.0
Witch Hunt
Players must manage health, mana, and resources to survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
X-COM: Apocalypse
Strong survival theme in defending the city and managing limited resources against alien threats.
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+4.0
Albion Online
Players must avoid death and loss of gear in dangerous PvP zones, requiring strategic defense and escape.
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+4.0
Curse of the Dead Gods
Players must manage health, stamina, curses, and resources to survive increasingly difficult enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Isonzo
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and use strategy to survive and succeed.
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+4.0
Mitos.is: The Game
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding being eaten and outlasting opponents.
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+4.0
Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
Core gameplay involves avoiding deadly ghosts, managing limited resources like safe rooms, and strategic use of QTEs to…
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+4.0
Containment Initiative
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of zombies.
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+4.0
CONVRGENCE
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and carefully extract to succeed.
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+4.0
CounterAttack: Uprising
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress through difficult levels.
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+4.0
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition
Players must manage resources and defend bases to survive waves of enemy fluid and timed threats.
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+4.0
Dead
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive boss encounters.
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+4.0
Dredgers
Players manage health, hunger, and threats to stay alive in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
EMPTY SHELL
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Heretic's Fork
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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