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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Focused on survival
Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Resident Evil 2
Strong survival mechanics including resource scarcity, threat avoidance, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Russian Subway Dogs
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger and avoiding threats to stay alive as long as possible.
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+5.0
SCP – Containment Breach
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing health and stamina, and escaping threats.
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+5.0
Subnautica
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding threats, and staying alive in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Super Hexagon
Core gameplay is about avoiding failure and surviving increasingly difficult obstacles.
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+5.0
Terraformental
Core gameplay involves managing resources to survive and progress through hostile environments.
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+5.0
Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing limited lives and bombs, and surviving increasingly difficult…
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+5.0
Abiotic Factor
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and staying alive.
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+4.0
Acquitted
Players must survive waves of enemies with limited resources and increasing threats.
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+4.0
Blood Vial
Constant health drain and enemy threats create a strong survival challenge.
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+5.0
Cogmind
Avoiding damage, managing resources, and staying alive are key challenges.
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+4.0
Comatose
Resource management, avoiding damage, and strategic combat are core survival elements.
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+4.0
Desecrators
Players must manage shields, ammo, and lives to avoid failure in challenging, hostile environments.
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+5.0
From Glory To Goo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, defending base, and managing threats.
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+5.0
HyperRogue
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving increasingly difficult enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Keep Her Safe
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by managing resources, defending base, and surviving waves.
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+5.0
Kenshi
Core gameplay revolves around survival, avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Life Goes On: Done to Death
Avoiding failure by careful planning and using corpses to survive hazards.
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+5.0
Nuclear Throne
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in hostile environments.
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+4.0
Stacklands
Core gameplay involves managing resources and defending against threats to keep villagers alive.
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+4.0
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Touhou Fantasia / 东方梦想曲
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving overwhelming bullet patterns
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+5.0
Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object.
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing limited resources, and surviving increasingly difficult stages.
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+4.0
Call of Duty® (2003)
Health packs and careful play required to avoid death; no health regeneration.
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