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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
Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Managing supply and avoiding operational failure are key survival challenges in the game.
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+4.0
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Players must avoid detection and death, managing resources and positioning to survive missions.
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+4.0
Dreamscaper
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and overcome threats in progressively difficult dream levels.
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+4.0
Fantasy Survivors
Central gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
First Cut: Samurai Duel
Players must avoid death and manage threats carefully, emphasizing survival in combat.
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+4.0
Fleet Command
Players must manage threats, avoid losses, and maintain fleet integrity to succeed in missions.
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+4.0
For The King
Players manage resources, health, and threats to avoid party wipe and progress through challenging scenarios.
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+4.0
Hell Deck
Strong survival elements with resource management and avoiding defeat through strategic play.
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+4.0
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
Survival mechanics like managing hunger, cold, and exhaustion are integral and add challenge.
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+4.0
King Of The Castle
Monarch must survive rebellions and political threats, requiring strategic defense and resource management.
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+4.0
Nine-Ball Roulette
Core gameplay involves avoiding elimination and managing risk to stay alive in matches.
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+4.0
NINJA GAIDEN 4
Players must avoid failure and manage resources in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
None Shall Intrude: Descent
Players must manage resources, health, and positioning to survive increasingly difficult enemies.
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+4.0
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Players must avoid death carefully; wounds affect mobility and combat effectiveness, emphasizing survival.
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+4.0
Rogue Hex
Core gameplay involves defending cities and surviving barbarian attacks with strategic resource use.
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+4.0
Silent Storm Gold Edition
Players must manage squad survival, avoid failure, and tactically overcome threats.
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+4.0
Skeleton Hell
Strong survival elements with avoiding death and managing threats.
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+4.0
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Players must manage resources and avoid being overwhelmed by zombie hordes to survive.
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+4.0
Time Wasters
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing shields and hull, and overcoming increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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+4.0
Tormentor❌Punisher
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and bosses with one-hit deaths.
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Modes like Last Stand emphasize survival against waves of enemies, requiring resource and tactical management.
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+4.0
We Who Are About To Die
Players must manage stamina, health, and resources to survive increasingly difficult fights.
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+4.0
Welcome To The Dark Place
Players must avoid hazards and death, learning from failures to survive and progress.
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