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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Central motivation is to survive waves of enemies, manage resources, and protect the crystal to progress.
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+5.0
Green Hell
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Night Raider
Core gameplay centers on managing health, infection, fatigue, and resources to survive hostile environments.
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+5.0
Survival: Fountain of Youth
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, health, and resources to stay alive
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+5.0
The Bottom of the Well
Core gameplay revolves around surviving nuclear apocalypse through resource management, choices, and character stats.
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+5.0
They Are Billions
Survival against overwhelming zombie threats is the main gameplay driver, requiring resource and defense management.
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+5.0
Zombie Panic! Source
Central theme is survival against zombie hordes with resource and team management to avoid death.
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+4.0
1000 days to escape
Core gameplay revolves around survival of humanity through resource management and avoiding failure.
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+4.0
SIDE EFFECTS
Core gameplay revolves around managing health and resistance to avoid death.
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+5.0
LIFE EFFECT
Core gameplay revolves around survival mechanics, resource scarcity, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
ARK: Survival Evolved
Central motivation is to avoid death, manage resources, and overcome environmental threats.
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+5.0
Z.O.N.A: Origin
Core gameplay is about avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+4.0
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding infection spread, managing resources, and protecting the base.
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+5.0
Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions
Strong focus on avoiding detection, managing resources, and surviving enemy attacks under realistic conditions.
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+5.0
The Backrooms: Survival
Central focus on managing hunger, thirst, sanity, and avoiding or fighting deadly threats to stay alive.
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+5.0
Forsaken Frontiers
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and escaping danger.
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+5.0
Nuclear Nightmare
Central theme of avoiding infection, managing resources, and surviving hostile environment and creatures.
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+4.0
Interkosmos
Core gameplay revolves around managing life support and systems to survive re-entry and landing.
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+5.0
Devil of the Plague
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving escalating threats.
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+5.0
Escape the Ayurok
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources like flashlight, and stealth survival.
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+5.0
PONE
Central theme of avoiding death, managing threats, and completing objectives under pressure.
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+5.0
Receiver
Core gameplay revolves around survival, resource management, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, stamina, hunger, radiation, and threat avoidance.
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+5.0
White Noise 2
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving monster attacks.
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