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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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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Death Skid Marks
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid death in a hostile environment with permadeath.
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+4.0
DOOM Eternal
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Dungeonmans
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging, risky environments.
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+4.0
Exo Rally Championship
Players must avoid vehicle damage, manage limited resources, and survive hazardous environments to complete races.
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+4.0
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2
Managing supply, avoiding encirclement, and sustaining forces are key survival challenges in the game.
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+4.0
Legend of Grimrock 2
Players must manage resources, health, and avoid death in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
MENACE
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to maintain operational capability.
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+4.0
Prey
Resource management and survival against threats are important gameplay aspects.
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+4.0
Quantum Protocol
Players must manage resources and avoid failure by careful planning to survive waves of enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Rogue: Genesia
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Subnautica 2
Players must manage resources and navigate threats.
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+4.0
THE LAST BLADE 2
Players must avoid defeat through skillful defense, parrying, and resource management (energy bars, special moves).
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+4.0
The Nameless: Slay Dragon
Resource and fatigue management, avoiding failure in skill checks and battles are key survival elements.
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+4.0
This is a Ghost
Strong survival elements with health management, avoiding death, and strategic defense against ghosts.
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+4.0
Uplink
Avoiding detection and failure is critical; survival is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® II Chaos Rising
Gameplay involves avoiding failure, managing resources, and overcoming threats
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+4.0
Wizard of Legend
Players must avoid damage, manage positioning, and survive challenging encounters with limited healing.
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+4.0
30XX
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to survive increasingly difficult runs.
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+4.0
64.0
Core gameplay is about surviving waves of enemies for a set time, avoiding failure through skill.
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+4.0
Arma 3
Players must manage threats, resources, and tactical defense to survive in hostile environments.
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+4.0
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Combat and resource management require players to avoid failure and manage threats.
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+4.0
Captain of Industry
Players must avoid failure and manage limited resources carefully to keep colony alive.
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+4.0
Conquest of Elysium 5
Players must manage threats, resources, and strategic defense to survive and win
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+4.0
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Players must manage threats, resources, and strategic defense to survive and succeed.
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