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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Top picks
Popular, well-rated games with a strong survival score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Diehard Dungeon
Players must avoid traps, manage health, and survive waves of enemies to progress; survival is a key motivation.
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+4.0
Rogue Lords
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to survive through challenging encounters.
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+4.0
RymdResa
Core challenge is managing resources and avoiding hazards to stay alive in hostile space environment.
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+4.0
Section 13
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats to survive runs.
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+4.0
The Hong Kong Massacre
Players must avoid death from one-hit kills and manage resources like slow motion to survive.
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+4.0
White Noise Online
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and managing resources like stamina and flashlight.
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+4.0
Guardians of the Sanctree
Strong survival elements with resource management, defense against threats, and strategic planning to stay alive.
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+4.0
EverSiege: Untold Ages
Core gameplay revolves around defending the base and surviving escalating enemy threats
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+4.0
Niffelheim
Core gameplay revolves around surviving hunger, attacks, and resource management.
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+4.0
The Forever Winter
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Blaite
Players must avoid hazards and enemies to survive and complete levels.
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+4.0
Cuban Missile Crisis
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to survive and succeed in missions.
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+4.0
Deadlight: Director's Cut
Strong survival theme with stamina management, avoiding threats, and limited resources.
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+4.0
Democracy 3 Africa
Players must manage threats, maintain stability, and avoid failure states like assassination or losing elections.
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+4.0
Every Day We Fight
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
GALAK-Z
Players must manage health and resources carefully to survive challenging missions.
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+4.0
Hordes of Hunger
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, managing health and resources under pressure.
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+4.0
Mimicry
Core gameplay involves survival, avoiding death, and resource management.
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+4.0
Occult
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Serious Sam: Tormental
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
The Coma 2B: Catacomb
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
UFO: Aftershock
Players manage resources, defend bases, and survive against increasingly difficult enemies.
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+4.0
Unto The End
Survival elements include managing health, crafting healing items, and resource scarcity
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+4.0
AfterHours
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources like flashlight batteries, and escaping threats.
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