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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+5.0
System Shock® 2 (1999)
Strong survival mechanics with resource scarcity, weapon degradation, and enemy threats.
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+4.0
Trench Face
Strong survival elements with resource scarcity, managing health and ammo, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
UnReal World
Core focus on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming environmental and human threats.
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+4.0
Wasteland Bites
Core gameplay involves managing threats and stress to survive shifts and progress through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Abandoned Archive
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive; game emphasizes overcoming threats and staying alive.
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+5.0
Alan Wake II
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming hostile threats.
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+5.0
Amnesia: The Bunker
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
Core gameplay revolves around surviving enemy waves and managing resources to sustain settlements.
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+4.0
Causality
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing limited saves and resources, and surviving enemy encounters.
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+5.0
Gothic 1
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
GRADIUS ORIGINS
Players must avoid death and manage power-ups carefully to survive challenging levels and bosses.
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+5.0
Into the Radius VR
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, weapon maintenance, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
It Comes In Waves
Core gameplay revolves around managing water resources to avoid death and complete objectives.
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+4.0
Lake of Creatures
Players must avoid damage, manage resources, and survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+5.0
PAYDAY™ The Heist
Players must avoid death and arrest, manage resources, and survive escalating threats.
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+5.0
Project Silverfish
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress through stages.
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+4.0
Raft
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, raft integrity, and avoiding threats.
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+5.0
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing wounds, and tactical defense; survival is challenging and…
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+5.0
Risk of Rain (2013)
Central theme of surviving hostile environments with resource and time management.
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+5.0
Rogue Fable III
Strong survival elements including resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Spelunky 2
Avoiding death and managing resources is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Underlevel
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding defeat and keeping skeletons alive against threats.
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+4.0
Waves 2: Notorious
Gameplay centers on avoiding death and managing health/shields against waves of enemies.
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