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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
氷点下30度の絶望
Story centers on survival under extreme conditions and managing desperate situations.
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+4.0
Crow Country
Resource management, avoiding or confronting enemies, and puzzle solving to survive threats are core gameplay.
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+4.0
Hungry Horrors
Players must manage stamina and avoid failure by careful resource and time management to survive runs.
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+4.0
The Deadseat
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats and managing resources to survive through levels.
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+4.0
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Survival mechanics like stamina, healing, and camouflage add to the challenge of staying alive.
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+4.0
Dear Magical Girls
Core gameplay involves defending and surviving waves of enemies with resource management.
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+4.0
DOOM + DOOM II
Players must manage health, ammo, and avoid death to progress through dangerous environments.
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+4.0
Downwell
Players must manage health, ammo, and avoid damage to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Idols of Ash
Players must avoid death from falls and the pursuing centipede, managing health and risk.
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+4.0
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
Players must prevent enemies from breaching defenses, managing resources and adapting to threats.
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+4.0
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Players must prevent enemies from breaching defenses, managing resources and adapting tactics to survive.
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+4.0
Magical Girl Witch Trials
Core theme involves survival through identifying culprits to avoid collective execution.
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+4.0
Mushihimesama
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving increasingly difficult bullet patterns.
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+4.0
Slaughter Horse 2
Players must avoid detection and death, manage sanity and suspicion to survive and win.
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+4.0
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Central theme of survival in hostile environment with resource and moral management.
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+4.0
Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive challenging bullet patterns and boss fights.
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+4.0
Cannibal Abduction
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing stamina and health, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Players must prevent enemies from stealing cores, managing threats and resources to survive waves.
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding capture and surviving encounters with the antagonist animatronic.
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+4.0
Flywrench
Avoiding death and failure is central, with instant respawns encouraging overcoming threats and hazards.
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+4.0
Invokyr
Players must avoid enemies, manage resources, and survive through boards with threats and hazards.
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+4.0
Last Command
Players must avoid damage and survive complex attack patterns, emphasizing threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Love Love School Days
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing limited resources to survive.
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+4.0
Mayonnaise Simulator
Core gameplay centers on avoiding damage and surviving waves of enemies.
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