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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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+5.0
FLATHEAD
Core gameplay centers on avoiding failure and escaping the monster by managing risk and points.
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+5.0
This War of Mine
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and enduring threats.
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+5.0
Alien: Isolation
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and outsmarting threats.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Core gameplay is about avoiding death by managing threats and reacting to dangers, emphasizing survival.
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+5.0
Midnight Heist
Core gameplay centers on avoiding failure and surviving entity hunts through stealth and hiding.
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+5.0
Muck
Central theme is avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Shardpunk
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and strategic defense.
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+5.0
Crimsonland
Central focus on surviving endless waves of enemies with resource and health management.
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+5.0
Darkest Dungeon®
Primary motivation is to survive harsh dungeon conditions, manage resources, and avoid death.
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+5.0
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
Strong survival element as players must defend against continuous enemy waves and manage scarce resources.
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+5.0
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats to survive.
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+5.0
Fatal Twelve
Survival is the central theme, with players navigating threats and strategic elimination to stay alive.
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+5.0
Frostrain 2
Survival is central theme; managing happiness, resources, and overcoming environmental threats is core gameplay.
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+5.0
Oxide: Survival Island
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, cold, health, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Decimate Drive
Primary motivation is to survive and avoid death from cars; resource management minimal but threat constant.
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+5.0
Knights End
Central focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and enduring escalating threats.
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+5.0
Near Death
Core gameplay is about managing resources and avoiding death from cold and environment.
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+5.0
Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn
Central motivation is to survive increasingly difficult waves, manage resources, and avoid death.
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+5.0
Banished
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats like starvation, cold, disease, and disasters.
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+5.0
The Alters
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resource scarcity, and staying alive under harsh conditions.
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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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+5.0
Boris and the Dark Survival
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding capture, managing stamina, and surviving increasingly difficult levels.
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+5.0
Dead Signal
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and managing threats to survive until morning.
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+5.0
Scrutinized
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving threats.
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