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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Newer releases, in the order selected for this motivation.
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+4.0
Journey to the West Survivor
Core gameplay involves surviving waves of enemies and bosses; resource and health management important.
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+4.0
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
Players must manage scarce resources and avoid failure in difficult missions; survival is a key theme.
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+4.0
Slice & Dice
Players must avoid defeat through resource and risk management; survival is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Raw Metal
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through dangerous levels.
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+5.0
Grim Realms
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources, and defending colony.
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+5.0
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
9 Days
Avoiding failure and staying alive is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Managing threats from other factions and the planet itself is a key challenge.
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+4.0
Backrooms Rec.
Strong survival mechanics with resource management, threat avoidance, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Rabbit Hole
Players must avoid damage, manage scarce health, and survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
KeeperRL
Strong survival elements requiring defense, resource management, and overcoming threats to stay alive.
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+5.0
Decimate Drive
Primary motivation is to survive and avoid death from cars; resource management minimal but threat constant.
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+4.0
Ruff Ghanor
Players must manage health and resources carefully to survive encounters and progress.
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+5.0
Pacific Drive
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+5.0
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Core gameplay revolves around managing limited resources and avoiding losses to survive missions.
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+4.0
School Labyrinth
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and surviving until escape.
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+4.0
Slave Zero X
Focus on avoiding death, managing health and meter, and overcoming challenging enemies.
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+4.0
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens
Strong focus on avoiding damage, managing health, and overcoming threats in procedurally generated dungeons.
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+5.0
Chromosome Evil 2
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding death, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Strong survival mechanics including resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Ball-it Hell
Players must avoid damage and survive increasingly difficult waves, emphasizing survival under pressure.
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+4.0
ESCAPE FROM BOYKISSER
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding capture and surviving the chase.
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+4.0
HELLDIVERS™ 2
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Black Gunner Wukong
Players must survive increasingly difficult enemy waves and bosses, managing resources and positioning.
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