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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Less relaxation
High survival scores, with relaxation at +0 or below.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and strategically survive enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Downwell
Players must manage health, ammo, and avoid damage to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Players must avoid death and manage threats carefully to progress through levels.
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+4.0
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Players must avoid failure (bomb explosion) through careful resource and time management.
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+4.0
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Players must avoid checkmate and manage threats across timelines, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
The Backrooms Deluxe 2
Survival elements like sanity management, resource gathering, and threat avoidance are central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Garena Free Fire Max
Survival is the main objective, involving resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense to be last…
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Players must avoid death, manage limited health, and overcome threats through careful tactics.
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+4.0
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Players must avoid failure, manage resources, and keep squad members alive under threat.
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+4.0
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Players must manage squad health and revive mechanics to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Metroid Dread
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming lethal threats.
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+4.0
Arma 3
Players must manage threats, resources, and tactical defense to survive in hostile environments.
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+4.0
Baldi's Basics Plus
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing resources to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Little Nightmares II
Gameplay centers on avoiding threats, stealth, and managing limited resources to survive.
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+4.0
Post Void
Players must manage time and health carefully to survive and progress; constant threat of failure.
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+4.0
Dead Space™ 2
Focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Modes like Zombies and Blackout emphasize survival against threats and resource management.
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+4.0
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Players must avoid damage and manage health to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
MULLET MADJACK
Timer mechanic creates constant threat of failure, requiring resource (time) management and avoidance of damage.
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+4.0
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy
Players must avoid damage and manage resources like stamina and courage to survive boss encounters.
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+4.0
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Survival mechanics in mods like DayZ emphasize avoiding death and managing resources.
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+4.0
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Players must manage health, resources, and threats to survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
DOOM Eternal
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging combat scenarios.
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+4.0
Hearts of Iron IV
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat, emphasizing survival and overcoming threats.
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