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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
Far Cry® 2
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources like malaria medicine, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Fear the Timeloop - Prologue
Players must manage health, time, and resources to survive threats and progress.
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+4.0
Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense
Gameplay centers on defending against waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
ORION: Prelude
Central gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, defending objectives, and managing resources.
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+4.0
Scarlet Tower
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing resources.
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+4.0
Skull Horde
Players must avoid failure by managing resources and surviving increasingly difficult enemies.
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+4.0
Starless Abyss
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat in challenging battles, emphasizing survival and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Tangledeep
Focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in dangerous dungeons.
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+4.0
The Red Lantern
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding failure to survive the wilderness.
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+4.0
The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Survival under siege and threat is a major gameplay and narrative element.
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+4.0
Echoes of the Living
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
HordeZ
Strong survival elements with resource management and avoiding being overwhelmed by zombies.
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+4.0
Into the Radius 2
Players must manage resources, avoid threats, and survive hostile environments.
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+4.0
Phantom Abyss
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming threats in temples.
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+4.0
Steel Armor: Blaze of War
Focus on avoiding damage, managing resources, and tactical defense to survive engagements.
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+4.0
Tap Dungeon
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging roguelike dungeon runs.
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+4.0
1001 Spikes
Players must avoid traps and manage limited lives to survive through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
CryoFall
Players manage health, hunger, equipment durability, and environmental threats to stay alive and progress.
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+4.0
Forever Skies
Core gameplay revolves around managing survival needs and overcoming environmental threats.
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+4.0
Last Group Out
Survival mechanics like health, hunger, and avoiding death are core to gameplay.
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+4.0
Revenge of the Titans
Focus on defending base and surviving waves of enemies; resource and upgrade management critical.
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+4.0
Strike Suit Infinity
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing resources.
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+4.0
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Core gameplay revolves around keeping characters alive through choices and quick-time events under threat.
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+4.0
Backroom Company
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and surviving hostile environments.
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