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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
Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition
Main objective is to survive waves of zombies and environmental hazards managing limited resources.
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+4.0
Citywars Tower Defense
Strong survival elements with resource gathering, crafting, and defending against waves.
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+4.0
Cockroach Simulator
Core gameplay involves cockroaches surviving threats and humans trying to exterminate them.
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+4.0
Combat Mission Black Sea
Players must avoid losses and manage resources carefully to keep units alive and succeed in missions.
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+4.0
CRYPTARK
Players must manage resources and avoid death to survive missions and progress.
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+4.0
Dead Effect 2 VR
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Founders' Fortune
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and colonist survival.
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+4.0
Gloom
Players must avoid death and manage stamina and health carefully to survive through runs.
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+4.0
Gorky 17
Players must manage scarce resources and avoid character death to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Return to Mysterious Island
Core theme is surviving on a mysterious island using crafting and resource management.
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+4.0
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Players focus on avoiding death and managing resources to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Tower of Kalemonvo
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and careful play required.
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+4.0
Warfare
Players must manage limited resources, avoid losses, and preserve units to succeed, emphasizing survival tactics.
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Players must manage wounds, resources, and tactical positioning to avoid failure and keep squad alive.
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+4.0
Eador: Genesis
Players must manage resources and defend territories to avoid defeat and game over.
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+4.0
Entropy Survivors
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Insider Trading
Players must avoid failure by meeting weekly targets and managing risk carefully.
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+4.0
SAMURAI SHODOWN
Focus on avoiding damage and outlasting opponents in high-risk, high-damage encounters.
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+4.0
THOTH
Avoiding death and managing threats is core to gameplay, requiring careful resource (time/space) management.
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+4.0
Backpack Jianghu
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat to survive through encounters and reach the final battle.
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+4.0
Bloody Walls
Players must avoid death by careful aiming and timing; resource and time management are key.
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+4.0
Cargo Hunters
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and survive hostile AI threats.
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+4.0
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
Core gameplay involves avoiding failure, managing resources, and protecting survivors.
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+4.0
LOST EGG 2: Be together
Players must avoid failure and manage fragile egg character survival through precise control.
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