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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
Swallow the Sea
Core gameplay centers on avoiding threats and surviving to grow and progress.
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+4.0
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Strong survival elements with permanent unit loss and resource management under threat from enemies.
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+4.0
Dead Space
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Ghostrunner
Players must avoid instant death and manage resources like abilities to survive.
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+4.0
Blood™ Fresh Supply
Gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats; survival is a key mechanic.
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+4.0
Cairn
Survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, cold, and resource management add challenge and realism.
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+4.0
Dead Estate
Players must manage resources, avoid threats, and survive increasingly difficult floors and enemies.
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+4.0
Dungeons of Dredmor
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome increasingly difficult threats.
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+4.0
Idols of Ash
Players must avoid death from falls and the pursuing centipede, managing health and risk.
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+4.0
Jackpot Crash Course
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving through strategic choices and gambling.
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+4.0
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing resources, and staying alive.
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+4.0
Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers.
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress through difficult stages.
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+4.0
Blood
Players must manage scarce ammo and health, avoid deadly enemies, and use strategy to survive harsh conditions.
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+4.0
Cannon Fodder
Players must avoid losing soldiers and manage resources carefully to survive missions.
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+4.0
COMPOUND
Players must avoid death through dodging, resource management, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Players must avoid death and manage limited hits to progress through hostile environments.
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+4.0
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Players must avoid damage and death, manage health and resources, and overcome threats to progress.
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+4.0
Mushihimesama
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving increasingly difficult bullet patterns.
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+4.0
Prey
Resource management and survival against threats are important gameplay aspects.
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+4.0
Subnautica: Below Zero
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources, avoiding threats, and staying alive in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
V Rising
Survival mechanics include resource gathering, managing sunlight vulnerability, and defending base.
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+4.0
Demon Lord: Just a Block
Players must avoid damage and death through careful planning and skillful play, with resource and health management…
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+4.0
Gothic II: Gold Edition
Players must avoid death and manage resources to progress in a hostile world.
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+4.0
Intravenous 2
Players must avoid death and manage resources in a high-risk, hostile environment.
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