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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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+5.0
Card Survival: Tropical Island
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing survival threats.
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+5.0
Caves of Qud
Survival against threats, resource management, and avoiding death are central to gameplay.
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+5.0
Darkwood
Central theme is avoiding death through resource management, barricading, and combat.
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+5.0
Devil Daggers
Core gameplay revolves around surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves as long as possible.
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+5.0
Don't Starve Together
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
dotAGE
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure and overcoming threats to village survival.
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+5.0
Dwarf Fortress
Strong survival elements involving threat management, resource control, and defense.
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+4.0
Eve of Souls: Static Pod
Survival mechanics with health and sanity management, resource constraints, and threat avoidance are core gameplay.
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+4.0
Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing stealth to survive threats.
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+5.0
FTL: Faster Than Light
Strong survival theme with resource management, threat avoidance, and permadeath mechanics.
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+4.0
Gloomwood
Resource management, avoiding detection, and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+5.0
House of Necrosis
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Lake of Voices
Core theme revolves around survival decisions, managing threats, and consequences of failure.
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+5.0
Long Live The Queen
Central motivation is to avoid death and navigate threats to reach coronation.
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+5.0
My Summer Car
Strong survival elements including managing hunger, thirst, stress, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Original War
Core gameplay revolves around survival of limited units and overcoming threats with scarce resources.
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+4.0
Palworld
Survival mechanics like resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense are core gameplay features.
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+4.0
Retail Hell
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure and managing threats to survive shifts.
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+5.0
Rogue
Strong survival elements including hunger, resource management, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Tattletail
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding Mama and managing Tattletail's needs to survive.
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+5.0
The Binding of Isaac
Strong survival elements with resource and health management to avoid death.
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+4.0
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and protecting the base.
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+4.0
The Witch's House MV
Players must avoid death and survive traps and monsters throughout the game.
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