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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
Causality
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing limited saves and resources, and surviving enemy encounters.
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+4.0
GearCity
Players must avoid bankruptcy and manage risks from wars, recessions, and competition
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+4.0
Gunk
Main objective is to survive waves of enemies and manage health and resources.
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Game emphasizes resource management, avoiding damage, and overcoming threats to survive runs.
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+4.0
It Comes In Waves
Core gameplay revolves around managing water resources to avoid death and complete objectives.
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+4.0
Legend Battles
Survival against AI threats, resource management, and extraction under pressure are core mechanics.
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+4.0
Pomberito
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death by the Pomberito, managing tasks, and surviving five nights.
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+4.0
Rogue Command
Players must manage resources, unit composition, and avoid defeat to progress through runs.
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+4.0
Skinwalker Hunt
Resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense are key to staying alive.
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+4.0
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Avoiding instant death traps and enemies is central, requiring careful resource and risk management.
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+4.0
Urtuk: The Desolation
Core gameplay involves managing resources, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Void Bastards
Players must manage health, oxygen, ammo, and resources to avoid death and progress.
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+4.0
Wizardry 8
Players must manage resources, positioning, and tactics to survive difficult encounters and threats.
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+4.0
Yoko no Hanashi
Core gameplay involves avoiding threats, managing resources, and escaping dangerous situations.
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+4.0
Soul Dossier
Survivors must avoid death and complete objectives under threat from killers.
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+4.0
50 years
Core gameplay is about surviving waves of attacks for 50 turns.
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+4.0
Biters & Bullets: Prologue
Central theme is surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and avoiding death.
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+4.0
BlazeRush
Modes like Death Race emphasize survival by avoiding elimination and staying ahead of threats.
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+4.0
Buriedbornes - Dungeon RPG
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging dungeon runs.
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+4.0
DG2: Defense Grid 2
Players must prevent failure by defending cores, managing resources, and surviving increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding ghost threats and completing objectives to survive.
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+4.0
Nauticrawl
Core gameplay involves managing resources and avoiding death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Core gameplay involves avoiding death from traps and enemies, managing timing and stealth.
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