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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
Escape the Backrooms
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive; survival mechanics are prominent.
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+4.0
Flat Heroes
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving waves of enemies and hazards.
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+4.0
Geometry Wars™ 3: Dimensions Evolved
Game challenges players to avoid death, manage threats, and survive increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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+4.0
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Players must avoid death and manage limited hits, navigating hazards to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
Players manage health and resources to survive increasingly difficult enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Metro Exodus
Resource scarcity, weapon maintenance, and lethal enemies require careful survival strategies.
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+4.0
Neodash
Avoiding death by outrunning the disintegrating track and obstacles is core to gameplay.
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+4.0
Party Bots
Core gameplay revolves around surviving chaotic arenas and being last bot standing.
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+4.0
Rabbit Hole
Players must avoid damage, manage scarce health, and survive challenging encounters.
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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
Sanctum 2
Players must prevent enemies from reaching and damaging the core, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
Switchcars
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by outrunning threats and managing resources.
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+4.0
Tangy TD
Players must manage resources and defend against waves to avoid failure and progress.
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+4.0
Those Who Rule
Permadeath and tactical challenges emphasize avoiding failure and managing resources to keep units alive.
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+4.0
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue
Survival mechanics (hunger, thirst, cold) are integral, requiring resource management and risk avoidance.
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+4.0
Two Strikes
Gameplay centers on avoiding fatal hits and outmaneuvering opponents to survive.
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+4.0
Vampire Hunters
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Resource management (blood, hunger, masquerade) and avoiding death are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
WORLD OF HORROR
Gameplay centers on managing health, sanity, and time to avoid failure and defeat eldritch threats.
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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
Cataclismo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by managing resources and defending against waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Players must avoid detection and death, carefully managing resources and threats.
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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
Escape The Mad Empire
Resource management, avoiding character death, and overcoming threats are central to gameplay.
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