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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Crisis VRigade
Players must avoid death and manage limited health to progress through hostile scenarios.
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+4.0
Evolings
Core gameplay involves managing resources and team survival against threats, with permanent death of creatures.
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+4.0
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Players must manage threats, resources, and environmental dangers to survive.
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+4.0
Mimicry
Core gameplay involves survival, avoiding death, and resource management.
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+5.0
Night of the Dead
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure, managing resources, and defending against threats.
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+4.0
One More Dungeon
Permadeath and resource scarcity require careful survival tactics.
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+5.0
Ostranauts
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding death in harsh space environments.
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+5.0
SAHUR: Escape Together
Central theme is avoiding death, managing threats, and overcoming hostile environment to escape.
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+4.0
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Players must avoid death, manage limited health and ammo, and restart levels upon failure, emphasizing survival.
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+4.0
Swarm Grinder
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by managing health and fuel while overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Strong survival theme with resource management, avoiding death, and retrieving fallen party members.
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+4.0
Ark of Charon
Core gameplay involves surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Artificial Extinction
Core gameplay involves defending against waves of enemies to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Asylum: Patient Zero
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats and surviving encounters.
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+4.0
ATOMINE
Players must avoid damage and survive waves of enemies and bosses; permadeath adds survival tension.
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+4.0
Berserk or Die
Central gameplay loop is about surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves and managing resources like stamina.
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+5.0
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Core gameplay centers on overcoming threats, resource management, and staying alive.
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+4.0
City Defense Z
Game centers on surviving waves of zombies through resource and defense management.
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+4.0
Dark Light: Survivor
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Expedition Agartha
Players must avoid death, manage stamina and health, and strategically extract to survive and keep loot.
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+4.0
Exploding Kittens® 2
Core mechanic is to avoid exploding cards and outlast opponents to survive.
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+4.0
Far Cry® 2
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources like malaria medicine, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
First Feudal
Strong survival elements including resource management, food supply, and defense against threats.
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+4.0
Gangs of Space
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving permadeath.
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