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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
Descent
Players must manage shields, energy, and avoid death to progress through levels.
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+4.0
Legend of Grimrock 2
Players must manage resources, health, and avoid death in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
Stonemachia
Players must avoid damage and manage health through parrying and aggressive combat to survive.
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+4.0
Town of Salem
Strong survival element with players trying to avoid death and outlast opponents.
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Modes like Last Stand emphasize survival against waves of enemies, requiring resource and tactical management.
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+4.0
Whiskerwood
Strong survival elements managing resources, taxes, and environmental challenges.
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+4.0
Space Invaders
Focus on avoiding enemy fire and preventing aliens from reaching the bottom to survive.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
Zombies mode emphasizes survival against waves of enemies with resource management and strategic defense.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Survival mode and campaign missions emphasize avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
GONE Fishing
Core gameplay involves avoiding monsters, managing quotas, and surviving each day.
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+4.0
MENACE
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to maintain operational capability.
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+4.0
Pacify
Core gameplay centers on avoiding capture and surviving hostile supernatural threats.
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+4.0
The Banner Saga
Core gameplay involves managing resources and making choices to keep caravan alive amid threats.
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+4.0
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
Players must manage health, resources, and character status to avoid permanent loss and progress through threats.
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+4.0
IronWolf VR
Strong survival elements with managing leaks, avoiding detection, and resource management under threat.
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+4.0
Mini-Dead
Players must avoid damage and survive boss attacks with limited health to succeed.
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+4.0
Rubinite
Players must avoid damage and survive lethal attacks, emphasizing resource and risk management.
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+4.0
Sektori
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in dynamic arenas.
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+4.0
The Other Side
Game involves avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving ghost hunts with strategic defense.
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+4.0
Gunner, HEAT, PC!
Players must avoid death, manage damage, and survive lethal enemy fire
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+4.0
Level Devil
Players must avoid death traps and hazards, requiring careful timing and resourceful movement.
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+4.0
Octogeddon
Players must avoid damage, manage health, and survive waves of enemies with strategic defense.
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+4.0
Spirit Island
Players must manage threats and avoid defeat conditions, emphasizing survival strategy.
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold
Players must avoid failure and death, managing resources and team survival carefully.
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