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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
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to progress through challenging missions.
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+4.0
Doomsday Hunters
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
Dream Quest
Core gameplay involves managing health, resources, and avoiding death through strategic play and encounter selection.
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+4.0
Dungeon Warfare 2
Focus on preventing enemies from reaching the portal and managing threats strategically.
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+4.0
Exiled Kingdoms
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid death in a challenging environment with threats and traps.
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+4.0
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Furi
Players must avoid failure and manage health stocks to survive multi-phase boss fights.
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+4.0
Gary Grigsby's War in the East
Players must manage supply, avoid encirclement, and maintain unit effectiveness to survive and succeed.
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+4.0
GearCity
Players must avoid bankruptcy and manage risks from wars, recessions, and competition
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+4.0
Grounded
Core survival mechanics include resource gathering, managing threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding ghost threats and completing objectives to survive.
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+4.0
Hearts of Iron IV
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat, emphasizing survival and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
Players must avoid death from enemies and friendly fire, manage resources, and survive waves.
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+4.0
Hellsinker.
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to progress through challenging stages.
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+4.0
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically survive difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Men of War™
Players must manage resources, avoid losses, and maintain unit effectiveness to survive missions.
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+4.0
Oaken Tower
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat through strategic defense and scaling.
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+4.0
PULSAR: Lost Colony
Players must manage threats, resource limits, and ship integrity to survive.
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+4.0
Rogue Command
Players must manage resources, unit composition, and avoid defeat to progress through runs.
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+4.0
Saros
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to progress through increasingly difficult runs.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Managing threats from other factions and the planet itself is a key challenge.
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+4.0
SYNTHETIK: Arena
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing resources under threat.
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+4.0
System Shock
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile environment.
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