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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
DoDonPachi Resurrection
Players must avoid death and manage resources like bombs and hyper mode to survive intense bullet patterns.
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+4.0
House
Central motivation is to avoid death, manage threats, and survive hostile environment within time constraints.
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+4.0
Kingdom Two Crowns
Core gameplay involves defending against threats, managing resources, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
Love Love School Days
Core gameplay involves avoiding capture and managing limited resources to survive.
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+4.0
Master of Magic Classic
Players must manage resources and defend against threats to survive and conquer.
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+4.0
ODDCORE
Managing time and health to avoid death under pressure.
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+4.0
Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
Players must avoid failure and carefully manage spacecraft systems to survive missions.
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+4.0
Risk of Rain Returns
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and overcome threats to progress.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to progress through increasingly difficult runs.
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+4.0
Wall World
Players must manage resources, avoid enemy attacks, and survive waves and bosses to progress.
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+4.0
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION
Players must avoid losing the ball and manage threats to stay alive and continue scoring.
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+4.0
ZeroRanger
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing lives and continues, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Patch Quest
Players must avoid damage, manage stamina, and overcome threats to progress and survive runs.
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+4.0
Colony Survival
Central theme is survival against zombie threats and resource management to keep colony alive.
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+4.0
Death Must Die
Players must avoid death, manage health, and overcome threats through skillful play and gear optimization.
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+4.0
Feign
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding elimination and surviving rounds through social strategy.
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+4.0
For The King
Players manage resources, health, and threats to avoid party wipe and progress through challenging scenarios.
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+4.0
UBERMOSH
Primary goal is to survive waves of enemies for 90 seconds under intense threat.
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+4.0
CAPTURED 2
Survival mechanics are key, requiring players to avoid threats, manage sanity, and complete objectives under pressure.
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+4.0
Gnomes
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies through strategic defense and resource management.
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+4.0
My Friendly Neighborhood
Core gameplay involves managing limited resources, avoiding or disabling enemies, and overcoming environmental threats.
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+4.0
Touhou Kaeizuka ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
Players must avoid damage and survive intense attacks to win duels.
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+4.0
Void War
Players must manage resources, crew health, and threats to avoid failure and survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Zombie Estate 2
Wave-based survival gameplay with resource management and threat avoidance central to experience.
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