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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
Time Break Chronicles
Players manage resources, character stamina, and tactical defense to avoid failure and progress through runs.
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+4.0
Welcome To The Dark Place
Players must avoid hazards and death, learning from failures to survive and progress.
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+4.0
White Night Dream
Core gameplay centers on managing health and resources to avoid failure and reach the end.
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+4.0
BARRIER X
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure and surviving as long as possible against increasing threats.
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+4.0
Deathtrap
Players must prevent enemies from breaching defenses and manage resources carefully.
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+4.0
Divekick
Players must avoid being hit and manage positioning carefully to survive rounds.
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+4.0
HELLDIVERS™ 2
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Panzer Corps 2
Players must manage resources and avoid unit losses to survive and succeed in campaigns.
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+4.0
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
Players must avoid failure and falling to maintain progress; resource management is minimal but survival of momentum is…
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+4.0
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Terrorhedron Tower Defense
Players must prevent enemies from reaching the end, managing resources and defenses carefully.
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+4.0
The Infected
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and environmental hazards.
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+4.0
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Strong survival elements with resource management, threat avoidance, and team defense.
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+4.0
Armored Brigade
Focus on avoiding losses, managing resources tactically, and maintaining unit cohesion under threat.
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+4.0
Command: Modern Operations
Players must manage threats, resource constraints, and unit survival in complex combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Avoiding detection and failure is critical; resource and risk management important.
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+4.0
Cosmochoria
Players must manage health, fuel, and resources to avoid death and progress through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Dead Reset
Core theme involves avoiding death and surviving through time-loop resets.
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+4.0
Eternal Return
Survival mechanics and resource management are central to gameplay, requiring players to avoid failure and outlast…
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+4.0
Linea, the Game
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding obstacles to survive for 60 seconds per level.
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+4.0
Men of War: Red Tide
Players must carefully manage limited resources and units to survive difficult missions.
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+4.0
Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to survive challenging enemy encounters.
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+4.0
StarRupture
Survival elements like managing hunger, hydration, and defending against threats are integral to gameplay.
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+4.0
Tormentor❌Punisher
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and bosses with one-hit deaths.
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