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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
Never Second in Rome
Players must manage resources, fatigue, and tactical defense to avoid failure and keep troops alive.
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+4.0
Phantom Abyss
Strong emphasis on avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming threats in temples.
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+4.0
PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate
Gameplay centers on preventing enemies from reaching the base, requiring resource and threat management.
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+4.0
Soviet Jump Game
Core gameplay is survival in a shrinking arena; players avoid hazards and opponents to be last alive.
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+4.0
The Forest of Doom (Standalone)
Players must manage health and resources to survive encounters and complete the quest.
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+4.0
The Land Beneath Us
Players must avoid damage, manage positioning, and survive enemy attacks in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Fatal Frame
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving hostile ghost encounters.
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+4.0
AETHERIS
Players must manage resources, avoid defeat, and survive against escalating threats and bosses.
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+4.0
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
Core gameplay involves avoiding failure, managing resources, and protecting survivors.
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+4.0
Forgotten Mines
Strong survival elements with managing party health, avoiding death, and overcoming threats under time pressure.
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+4.0
Hexguardian
Central gameplay involves defending the castle and managing resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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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
Metal Gear Solid
Gameplay centers on avoiding detection, managing resources, and overcoming threats to survive missions.
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+4.0
Pathless Woods
Core gameplay involves managing threats, resources, and environmental hazards to stay alive.
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+4.0
Project Lazarus
Core mechanic involves avoiding death, managing resources like armor, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Road Not Taken
Energy management and avoiding failure are core mechanics; survival is a key theme.
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+4.0
Runers
Gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats in dungeons.
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+4.0
SKIBIDI GYATROOMS
Survival mechanics with resource management, avoiding threats, and strategic defense are key.
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+4.0
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Players focus on avoiding death and managing resources to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
Core gameplay involves avoiding insanity and escaping the maze, representing survival under threat.
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+4.0
Unity of Command II
Maintaining supply and avoiding encirclement are critical to unit survival and mission success.
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+4.0
Balrum
Survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, and resource management are core gameplay elements
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+4.0
Blightstone
Players must protect the crystal and manage resources to survive encounters and progress.
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+4.0
Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
Modes involve avoiding death, managing resources like shards, and strategic defense against monsters or mortals.
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