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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
Airships: Lost Flotilla
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in challenging roguelike runs.
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+4.0
Cave Crawlers
Players must manage threats, health, and resources to survive increasingly difficult caves.
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+4.0
CleanFall
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming increasingly difficult threats.
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+4.0
Dungeon Defenders
Players must defend crystals and survive waves of enemies, managing resources and defenses under pressure.
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+4.0
ELDEN RING
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile, high-risk environment.
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+4.0
Halls of Torment: Prelude
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Legend of Grimrock
Players must manage resources, avoid traps, and survive challenging enemies to progress.
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+4.0
One Step From Eden
Strong survival elements with dodging attacks, managing resources, and avoiding death.
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+4.0
OTXO
Players must avoid death and manage health and resources to progress.
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+4.0
Pathogenic
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Pih 2
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and managing threats in hazardous environments.
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+4.0
Silver Pines
Resource management and avoiding death are key; survival horror mechanics are core to gameplay.
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+4.0
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Players must avoid damage and manage health to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Templar Battleforce
Players must manage resources, heat, and tactical positioning to survive overwhelming enemy forces.
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+4.0
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
Gameplay involves managing threats, resource allocation, and strategic defense to avoid failure.
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+4.0
9 Kings
Players focus on avoiding defeat and managing resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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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
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Players must manage health and corruption carefully to avoid defeat, emphasizing survival strategy.
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+4.0
Atomicrops
Players must survive waves of enemies and manage resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Cultivation Story: Reincarnation
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through challenging roguelike runs.
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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
Dead Space (2008)
Strong survival elements including resource scarcity, health management, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Dice With Death
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding defeat by Death through resource and risk management.
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+4.0
Forestrike
Players must avoid failure and manage limited resources to survive encounters.
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