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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
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress, reflecting survival challenge.
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+4.0
The Banner Saga 2
Strong survival theme with resource management, caravan morale, and overcoming threats central to gameplay.
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+4.0
UBERMOSH:OMEGA
Players must survive waves of enemies and avoid death in a high-risk environment.
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+4.0
Variables 2
Strong survival elements requiring players to prevent enemy breaches and manage resources to stay alive.
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+4.0
Vivid Knight
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat to survive through dungeon floors and bosses.
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+4.0
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
Survival elements in story and gameplay such as gathering resources, defending village, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM)
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome threats to extract successfully.
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+4.0
绯红编年史 ~ Chronicle of Scarlet ~
Players must carefully manage health, resources, and avoid failure to progress.
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+4.0
Conquest of Elysium 4
Players must manage threats, defend holdings, and survive hostile creatures and enemy factions.
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+4.0
Crypt
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by Greg and managing limited resources like sprint meter.
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+4.0
Curious Expedition 2
Survival elements include managing sanity, health, resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+4.0
Deadlink
Players must avoid death through careful resource and health management, facing escalating threats.
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+4.0
DiRT Rally 2.0
Players must avoid failure by managing car damage and navigating difficult terrain to complete stages.
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+4.0
Dredgers
Players manage health, hunger, and threats to stay alive in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
Feed the Scorchpot
Core gameplay revolves around surviving 20 years feeding the dragon and managing threats.
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+4.0
Ghost Exile
Strong emphasis on avoiding death and managing risks during ghost hunts and exorcisms.
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+4.0
GRAIN ROT
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome threats in procedurally generated levels.
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+4.0
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
Focus on avoiding defeat, managing resources, and preserving forces under threat; survival is a key gameplay element
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+4.0
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Players must avoid damage and death, manage health and resources, and overcome threats to progress.
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+4.0
LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE
Players manage resources and avoid failure in challenging dungeon exploration and boss fights.
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+4.0
Machick 2
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing resources during runs.
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+4.0
PAYDAY 2
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid failure to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
QuiVr
Players must defend gates and survive waves; failure results in game over.
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