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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
DEFCON
Players strive to protect their population and assets while surviving enemy attacks.
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+4.0
Feel The Snow
Survival elements like hunger, temperature, and resource management are important gameplay aspects.
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+4.0
Knock-knock
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding threats, managing time, and surviving until dawn.
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+4.0
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and rescuing family under time constraints.
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+4.0
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resource scarcity, and defending against zombies and factions.
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+4.0
Stardeus
Strong survival elements managing threats, resource scarcity, and ship integrity.
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+4.0
Styx: Master of Shadows
Avoiding detection and death is critical; players manage resources and threats carefully.
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+4.0
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Central theme of survival in a hostile, dangerous world with difficult decisions.
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+4.0
Twilight Struggle
Players must avoid defeat conditions and manage risks to survive and win.
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+4.0
Artisan TD
Core gameplay involves preventing enemies from reaching the base, requiring resource and threat management.
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+4.0
C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM)
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and overcome threats to extract successfully.
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+4.0
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Players must avoid detection and death, carefully managing resources and threats.
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+4.0
DOG WITCH
Players must manage health and resources to avoid failure and progress.
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+4.0
Eryi's Action
Players must avoid numerous threats and hazards to progress, emphasizing survival through memorization.
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic
Stealth and hiding mechanics emphasize avoiding threats and staying alive.
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+4.0
Gary Grigsby's War in the East
Players must manage supply, avoid encirclement, and maintain unit effectiveness to survive and succeed.
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+4.0
Inside the Backrooms
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and strategic hiding.
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+4.0
Kuro survival
Game emphasizes avoiding failure, managing resources, and overcoming threats in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
Neodash
Avoiding death by outrunning the disintegrating track and obstacles is core to gameplay.
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+4.0
Pawnbarian
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to survive increasingly difficult floors.
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+4.0
Shelter 2
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, starvation, and environmental hazards.
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+4.0
Sinister Night 2
Survival against supernatural threats and hostile players is a central gameplay element requiring resource and risk…
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+4.0
Steredenn: Binary Stars
Players must avoid damage, manage health, and survive increasingly difficult waves and bosses.
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+4.0
Super Sanctum TD
Gameplay centers on preventing enemies from reaching the core, managing resources and defenses to survive waves.
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