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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
Tower Networking Inc.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing threats like power surges and malware, and sustaining network…
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+4.0
Withering Rooms
Survival horror mechanics with resource management, threat avoidance, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
ZeroRanger
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing lives and continues, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Focus on avoiding damage and surviving complex bullet patterns; survival is core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Akane
Survival against endless waves with increasing difficulty is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Alien Swarm
Players must manage resources and avoid death while surviving waves of alien attackers.
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+4.0
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Ancient Dungeon
Players must avoid death and manage health carefully in challenging dungeon environments.
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+4.0
Approaching Infinity
Players must manage resources and avoid threats to survive.
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+4.0
Blood™ Fresh Supply
Gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats; survival is a key mechanic.
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+4.0
Buckshot Roulette
Primary goal is to avoid death and outlast opponents through strategic play.
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+4.0
Caravaneer 2
Strong survival elements including resource management, avoiding death, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
CRUEL
Players must avoid death and manage health and ammo carefully to progress.
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+4.0
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Players must avoid damage and death through careful timing and resource management.
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+4.0
Dead Estate
Players must manage resources, avoid threats, and survive increasingly difficult floors and enemies.
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+4.0
Dying Light
Strong survival elements with resource management, threat avoidance, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Players must avoid death and manage resources like armor and energy to survive against overwhelming threats.
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+4.0
Earthion
Players must avoid damage, manage shields, and survive waves of enemies to progress.
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+4.0
Enter the Gungeon
Players must avoid damage, manage limited ammo and health, and survive increasingly difficult floors.
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+4.0
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Players must prevent monsters from reaching the orb, managing resources and defenses to survive waves.
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+4.0
Gnomes
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies through strategic defense and resource management.
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+4.0
Halls of Torment
Focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
Ikaruga
Players must avoid death and manage risk carefully to progress.
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+4.0
Intravenous 2
Players must avoid death and manage resources in a high-risk, hostile environment.
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