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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Focused on survival
Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Lucky Tower Ultimate
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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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
Murder House
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing limited resources, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Noita
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding hazards, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Our Adventurer Guild
Permadeath and resource management create survival challenges; players must avoid failure to progress.
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+4.0
POLYBIUS
Players must avoid damage and manage shields to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Retrocycles
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding crashes and outlasting opponents.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Shogun Showdown
Players must avoid failure and manage threats carefully to progress.
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+4.0
SNKRX
Core gameplay involves avoiding damage, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Species: Unknown
Players must avoid death and manage resources while completing objectives under threat from monsters.
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+4.0
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
Players must avoid death and manage health of party members while overcoming threats and hazards.
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+4.0
The Consuming Shadow
Strong survival elements managing health, sanity, ammo, and time under threat of death.
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+4.0
The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing
Players must avoid being knocked out and manage stamina to survive rounds and win matches.
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+4.0
A Dance of Fire and Ice
Players must avoid failure and maintain perfect timing to progress, creating a survival-like challenge.
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+4.0
Cairn
Survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, cold, and resource management add challenge and realism.
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+4.0
DARK SOULS™ III
Players must manage health, stamina, and resources to survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
Dead Grid
Core theme is managing threats, resources, and staying alive against zombies.
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+4.0
Dead Space™ 2
Focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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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
Dungeons of Dredmor
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome increasingly difficult threats.
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+4.0
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Survival elements include resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Gameplay involves managing resources, overcoming threats, and surviving in a hostile wasteland.
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+4.0
Flamebreak
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid death to progress through increasingly difficult levels.
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