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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Popular, well-rated games with a strong survival score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Survival affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Core gameplay involves avoiding death and surviving hostile encounters.
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+4.0
Subnautica 2
Players must manage resources and navigate threats.
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+4.0
Door Kickers
Strong emphasis on avoiding failure, protecting squad members, and managing threats carefully.
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+4.0
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Players must avoid death and manage resources like armor and energy to survive against overwhelming threats.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
The narrative centers on survival themes, hardship, and overcoming adversity.
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+4.0
Orcs Must Die! 2
Core gameplay revolves around survival against waves of enemies and resource management.
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+4.0
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Players must avoid death and manage resources to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Monster Train 2
Players must manage resources and survive waves of enemies, emphasizing threat avoidance.
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+4.0
Species: Unknown
Players must avoid death and manage resources while completing objectives under threat from monsters.
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+4.0
StarVaders
Players must avoid failure by managing threats and resources carefully in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix
Permadeath and resource management create survival challenge
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+4.0
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
Strong survival theme with players making life-or-death decisions and managing threats.
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+4.0
Boneraiser Minions
Core gameplay centers on avoiding damage, managing health, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
DEADBOLT
Players must avoid death and manage limited resources to survive and complete objectives.
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+4.0
Gumballs & Dungeons
Players must manage resources and avoid failure in roguelike dungeons, emphasizing survival mechanics.
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+4.0
Minecraft
Survival mode challenges players to avoid threats, manage resources, and stay alive.
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+4.0
River Raid
Players must avoid crashing and manage fuel to survive and progress through the game.
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+4.0
Silent Hill
Resource scarcity, weapon durability, and health management create survival challenges.
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+4.0
Teamfight Tactics
Players manage health and resources to avoid elimination; survival is key to winning matches.
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+4.0
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Core theme involves protecting characters and surviving threats in a hostile world.
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+4.0
Vagrant Story
Players must manage risk, health, and resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Voidigo
Players must avoid damage, manage health and ammo, and strategically defeat bosses to progress.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Zombies mode and campaign emphasize survival against waves of enemies and threats.
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