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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
Rift Wizard 3
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to survive increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Stirring Abyss
Core gameplay centers on managing health, sanity, oxygen, and resources to survive hostile underwater environment.
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+4.0
Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Survival mode and wave defense emphasize avoiding failure and managing threats effectively.
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+4.0
Breach Wanderers
Gameplay centers on managing resources and surviving increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
DYSTHANASIA
Focus on avoiding lethal threats, managing limited resources, and escaping dangerous environments.
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+4.0
Fleet Command
Players must manage threats, avoid losses, and maintain fleet integrity to succeed in missions.
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+4.0
Garlic
Avoiding death and managing hazards is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Mortal Glory
Players must manage health, injuries, and resources to keep their gladiators alive through challenging fights.
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+4.0
Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered
Players must manage resources and avoid failure in challenging battles; survival is a key motivation.
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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
Skeleton Hell
Strong survival elements with avoiding death and managing threats.
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+4.0
Sudden Strike 2 Gold
Strong focus on unit preservation, resource management (ammo, fuel), and avoiding mission failure.
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+4.0
Trip to Vinelands
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death and surviving through 100 consecutive levels.
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+4.0
TTV2
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Vestaria Saga II: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister
Players must manage resources and avoid unit deaths; survival and overcoming threats are key gameplay elements.
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+4.0
America's Army: Proving Grounds
Players must avoid death, manage health and positioning carefully; no respawns without teammate revival.
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+4.0
Desktop Dungeons
Players must avoid death by careful planning and resource management in hostile dungeons.
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+4.0
Greedland
Core mechanic is surviving waves of enemies and managing resources and upgrades.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
Zombies mode and some multiplayer modes emphasize survival against threats and resource management.
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+4.0
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
Gameplay centers on defending against waves to survive and prevent failure.
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+4.0
Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal - Pacific War Naval Warfare
Players must manage resources and avoid losses to keep fleets operational; survival is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Cultist Simulator
Players must manage threats, resources, and avoid failure to continue playing.
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+4.0
Diary of Lucie
Strong survival elements with stamina and resource management, avoiding death to progress.
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+4.0
Dungeon Defenders II
Core gameplay involves defending crystals and surviving waves of enemies, requiring resource and tactical management.
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