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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
Command Ops 2 Core Game
Players manage unit survival, supply, morale, and tactical defense to avoid defeat.
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+4.0
東方実在相 ～ Dream Logical World
Focus on avoiding death and managing limited resources like power and Aspect Shift duration to survive stages.
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+4.0
Fortnite
Core gameplay revolves around survival against other players and environmental hazards like the storm.
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+4.0
Gatewalkers (Alpha)
Survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, temperature add meaningful challenge and resource management.
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+4.0
In Death
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving increasingly difficult enemies.
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+4.0
Maelstrom
Avoiding death from other players and environmental hazards is core to gameplay.
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+4.0
My Lands: Black Gem Hunting
Players must defend their cities and resources, manage threats, and survive attacks.
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+4.0
POPULATION: ONE
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and strategic defense to be last team standing.
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+4.0
Project Unknown
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving ghost hunts.
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+4.0
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Players must avoid damage and defeat threats to progress; game is challenging and punishing.
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+4.0
Star Traders: Frontiers
Managing resources, crew morale, and avoiding defeat are key survival challenges.
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+4.0
Until Dawn™
Core gameplay revolves around keeping characters alive through choices and quick-time events.
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+4.0
Wildfrost
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding defeat, managing resources, and surviving enemy threats.
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+4.0
Arcanium: Rise of Akhan
Players manage health, avoid defeat, and strategically survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Backpack Jianghu
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat to survive through encounters and reach the final battle.
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+4.0
Cossacks: Art of War
Resource management and army survival are key challenges, requiring careful defense and planning.
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+4.0
Darwin Project
Players manage cold meter, resources, and avoid threats to stay alive in shrinking zones.
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+4.0
Day of Infamy
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and survive enemy attacks.
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+4.0
Environmental Station Alpha
Players must avoid death and manage scarce health to survive challenging encounters
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+4.0
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Players manage resources, health, and threats to stay alive in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Gloomhaven
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to keep characters alive and progress.
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+4.0
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
Players must manage health, avoid traps, and overcome threats to progress and survive runs.
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+4.0
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator
Players must manage risk of gladiator death and maintain team viability to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Minecraft
Survival mode challenges players to avoid threats, manage resources, and stay alive.
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