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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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+4.0
White Night Dream
Core gameplay centers on managing health and resources to avoid failure and reach the end.
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+4.0
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, and tool durability to avoid failure.
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+5.0
Battle Brothers
Players must manage resources, avoid defeat, and keep their mercenaries alive in a hostile world.
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+4.0
Bomber Crew
Strong emphasis on avoiding failure, managing resources, and keeping crew alive.
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+4.0
Bounty of One
Central gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Cheese Game
Core gameplay revolves around surviving boss attacks and managing health through skillful dodging.
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+4.0
Clock Tower: Rewind
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing stamina, and escaping threats.
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+4.0
Cluckmech Oasis
Core gameplay revolves around defending the base and surviving waves of enemies under increasing threat.
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+4.0
CONVRGENCE
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and carefully extract to succeed.
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+5.0
Dark Deception
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources like powers, and surviving enemy chases.
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+5.0
Depth
Strong survival elements with limited lives, resource management, and threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Diary of Lucie
Strong survival elements with stamina and resource management, avoiding death to progress.
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+4.0
EMPTY SHELL
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Hello Guest: Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats and managing resources to stay alive.
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+5.0
HighFleet
Core gameplay involves avoiding destruction, managing resources, and surviving overwhelming odds.
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+4.0
Joint Task Force
Strong focus on unit survival, resource limitation, and avoiding mission failure.
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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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+4.0
MOTHER
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing resources, and protecting children from threats.
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+4.0
Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and surviving as various insects.
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+5.0
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
Core motivation is avoiding capture and surviving against a relentless threat.
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+5.0
Silent Hunter® III
Strong survival elements with threat of detection, damage, and death; resource management.
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+4.0
Slender: The Arrival
Core gameplay is about survival and avoiding capture or death.
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+5.0
Spark in the Dark
Core gameplay centers on survival mechanics including resource scarcity, managing light, and avoiding death.
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+5.0
Stationeers
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, resource scarcity, and environmental hazards to stay alive.
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