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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
X-COM: Apocalypse
Strong survival theme in defending the city and managing limited resources against alien threats.
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+4.0
Albion Online
Players must avoid death and loss of gear in dangerous PvP zones, requiring strategic defense and escape.
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+4.0
Curse of the Dead Gods
Players must manage health, stamina, curses, and resources to survive increasingly difficult enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Isonzo
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and use strategy to survive and succeed.
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+4.0
Mitos.is: The Game
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding being eaten and outlasting opponents.
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+4.0
Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
Core gameplay involves avoiding deadly ghosts, managing limited resources like safe rooms, and strategic use of QTEs to…
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+4.0
Resident Evil: Dead Aim
Survival horror mechanics emphasize resource management, threat avoidance, and overcoming dangers.
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+4.0
Containment Initiative
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of zombies.
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+4.0
CONVRGENCE
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and carefully extract to succeed.
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+4.0
CounterAttack: Uprising
Players must avoid death and manage limited lives to progress through difficult levels.
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+4.0
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition
Players must manage resources and defend bases to survive waves of enemy fluid and timed threats.
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+4.0
Dead
Players must avoid damage and manage health carefully to survive boss encounters.
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+4.0
Dredgers
Players manage health, hunger, and threats to stay alive in a challenging environment.
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+4.0
EMPTY SHELL
Strong survival elements with resource management, avoiding death, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Heretic's Fork
Core gameplay centers on surviving waves of enemies and managing resources to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®
Gameplay centers on avoiding death and hazards to survive and progress.
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+4.0
ScourgeBringer
Players must avoid damage, manage health carefully, and survive difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles
Players must avoid failure, manage resources, and protect their task force from enemy attacks.
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+4.0
The PenguinGame 2 -Lies of Penguin-
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and survive difficult boss fights.
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+4.0
Void Scrappers
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding damage, managing shields, and surviving waves of enemies.
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+4.0
WARRIORS: Abyss
Players must avoid failure and manage resources to survive waves and bosses; difficulty ramps up over runs.
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+4.0
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding infection spread, managing resources, and protecting the base.
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+4.0
1998: The Toll Keeper Story
Central theme of avoiding failure and managing scarce resources to survive difficult conditions.
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+4.0
Blazing Chrome
Players must avoid instant death from enemy attacks and environmental hazards, managing limited lives and continues.
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