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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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+5.0
Returnal™
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Core gameplay revolves around managing limited resources and avoiding losses to survive missions.
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+5.0
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
Central motivation is to survive waves of enemies and avoid being overrun.
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+5.0
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Central theme is avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+5.0
Fright Train
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and maintaining train integrity under threat.
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+5.0
Planetbase
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats and keeping colonists alive in hostile environments
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+5.0
Xenopurge
Core motivation is to keep squad alive and complete missions under threat and resource constraints.
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+5.0
Chromosome Evil 2
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding death, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+5.0
Meridian 59
Avoiding death and managing risk are central to gameplay, with harsh penalties for failure.
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+5.0
The Last Stand: Aftermath
Core gameplay revolves around managing health, infection, resources, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Six Days in Fallujah
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and completing objectives.
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+5.0
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Central theme is avoiding death, managing resources, and escaping threats.
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+5.0
Exodus Borealis
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing scarce resources.
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+5.0
No Man's Home
Strong survival focus with resource management, injury treatment, and threat avoidance.
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+5.0
Hunt: Showdown 1896
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and survive threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Xenonauts 2
Central motivation is avoiding failure, managing resources, and surviving alien threats.
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+5.0
AI War: Fleet Command
Strong survival elements as players must avoid defeat against a superior AI and manage resources carefully.
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+5.0
IXION
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resource scarcity, and keeping the colony alive.
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+5.0
Receiver
Core gameplay revolves around survival, resource management, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
SCP: Containment Breach 2
Central motivation is avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
The Succession of Changing Kings
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and maintaining kingdom stability under threat.
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+5.0
ZED ZONE
Central gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+5.0
Blood Card 2: Dark Mist
Core mechanic revolves around survival by managing deck as health and defeating enemies to reclaim cards.
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+5.0
ICARUS
Central focus on overcoming threats, managing resources, and staying alive in a hostile world.
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