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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Survival + Competence
A strong dose of survival and competence in the same game.
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+4.0
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Players must avoid checkmate and manage threats across timelines, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Players must avoid failure, manage resources, and keep squad members alive under threat.
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+4.0
Metroid Dread
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming lethal threats.
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+4.0
Post Void
Players must manage time and health carefully to survive and progress; constant threat of failure.
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+4.0
MULLET MADJACK
Timer mechanic creates constant threat of failure, requiring resource (time) management and avoidance of damage.
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+4.0
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy
Players must avoid damage and manage resources like stamina and courage to survive boss encounters.
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+4.0
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Survival mechanics in mods like DayZ emphasize avoiding death and managing resources.
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+4.0
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Players must manage health, resources, and threats to survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
DOOM Eternal
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Hearts of Iron IV
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat, emphasizing survival and overcoming 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
Into the Breach
Gameplay centers on preventing failure by managing threats and protecting resources under pressure.
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+4.0
Nine Sols
Players must avoid death and manage resources like health and currency under threat of loss.
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+4.0
Door Kickers
Strong emphasis on avoiding failure, protecting squad members, and managing threats carefully.
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+4.0
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Monster Train 2
Players must manage resources and survive waves of enemies, emphasizing threat avoidance.
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+4.0
StarVaders
Players must avoid failure by managing threats and resources carefully in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
DEADBOLT
Players must avoid death and manage limited resources to survive and complete objectives.
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+4.0
Teamfight Tactics
Players manage health and resources to avoid elimination; survival is key to winning matches.
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+4.0
Vagrant Story
Players must manage risk, health, and resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Lethal League
Players strive to avoid being hit and eliminated, managing positioning and timing to survive.
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+4.0
Slice & Dice
Players must avoid defeat through resource and risk management; survival is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith.
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and managing resources to survive through stages.
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+5.0
Bad Time Simulator (Sans Fight)
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage and surviving increasingly difficult attack waves.
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