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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Survival + Competence
A strong dose of survival and competence in the same game.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Alien: Isolation
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and outsmarting threats.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Central motivation is to survive each night by avoiding death from animatronic attacks.
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+5.0
DEVOUR
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving against threats.
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+5.0
Empires of the Undergrowth
Central motivation is to keep colony and queen alive against environmental threats
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+5.0
Grimshire
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding starvation to keep the village alive.
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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
PUMPKIN PANIC
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Cry of Fear
Survival horror mechanics emphasize avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Core gameplay is about avoiding death by managing threats and reacting to dangers, emphasizing survival.
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+5.0
Gothic 1
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
It Steals
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing threats, and surviving monster encounters.
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+5.0
Resident Evil
Central theme is survival against limited resources, managing threats, and avoiding death.
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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
7 Days to Die
Survival mechanics are central, including managing health, hunger, thirst, and defending against threats.
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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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+5.0
Banished
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats like starvation, cold, disease, and disasters.
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+5.0
Killing Floor 2
Core gameplay is about avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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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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+5.0
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Central theme is avoiding death and managing resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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+5.0
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Central mechanic is surviving waves of enemies and bosses for 10 or 20 minutes under increasing threat.
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+5.0
Backrooms: Escape Together
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Liquidators
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding radiation and environmental hazards to survive and complete objectives.
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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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+5.0
From Glory To Goo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, defending base, and managing threats.
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