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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
Sanctum 2
Players must prevent enemies from reaching and damaging the core, emphasizing survival and defense.
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+4.0
Switchcars
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by outrunning threats and managing resources.
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+4.0
Tangy TD
Players must manage resources and defend against waves to avoid failure and progress.
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+4.0
Those Who Rule
Permadeath and tactical challenges emphasize avoiding failure and managing resources to keep units alive.
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+4.0
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue
Survival mechanics (hunger, thirst, cold) are integral, requiring resource management and risk avoidance.
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+4.0
Two Strikes
Gameplay centers on avoiding fatal hits and outmaneuvering opponents to survive.
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+4.0
Vampire Hunters
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming escalating threats.
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+4.0
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Resource management (blood, hunger, masquerade) and avoiding death are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
WORLD OF HORROR
Gameplay centers on managing health, sanity, and time to avoid failure and defeat eldritch threats.
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+4.0
Armored Brigade
Focus on avoiding losses, managing resources tactically, and maintaining unit cohesion under threat.
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+4.0
Cataclismo
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding failure by managing resources and defending against waves of enemies.
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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
Containment Initiative
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving waves of zombies.
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+4.0
Escape The Mad Empire
Resource management, avoiding character death, and overcoming threats are central to gameplay.
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+4.0
Garlic
Avoiding death and managing hazards is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Hadean Tactics
Players manage resources and avoid defeat through strategic defense and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Nightmare: The Lunatic
Players must manage health and resources carefully to survive challenging enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
Raindancer
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death from one-hit kills and managing dodge charges.
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+4.0
Ruff Ghanor
Players must manage health and resources carefully to survive encounters and progress.
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+4.0
Space Engineers
Survival mechanics such as resource management, energy, and life support create meaningful challenges and 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
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Avoiding death and managing threats are core gameplay mechanics; survival tension is high.
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+4.0
The King is Watching
Players must manage resources and defenses to survive increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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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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