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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
Dead Cells
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Deep Rock Galactic
Players must manage threats, resources, and strategic defense to complete objectives and survive.
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+4.0
Duck Game
Players must avoid death and outlast opponents in fast-paced elimination matches.
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+4.0
Endless ATC
Players must avoid failures such as crashes and maintain safe separation under increasing pressure.
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+4.0
Gumballs & Dungeons
Players must manage resources and avoid failure in roguelike dungeons, emphasizing survival mechanics.
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+4.0
HENPRI
Themes of survival against oppressive forces and harsh environment are central to the narrative.
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+4.0
Hotline Miami
Players must avoid instant death and manage tactical positioning to survive enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Inscryption
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat in challenging card battles, reflecting survival elements.
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+4.0
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Players must avoid failure (bomb explosion) through careful resource and time management.
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+4.0
Master of Magic Classic
Players must manage resources and defend against threats to survive and conquer.
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+4.0
ODDCORE
Managing time and health to avoid death under pressure.
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+4.0
Post Void
Players must manage time and health carefully to survive and progress; constant threat of failure.
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+4.0
Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator
Players must avoid failure and carefully manage spacecraft systems to survive missions.
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+4.0
Resident Evil 4
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to progress, typical of survival horror.
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+4.0
Slay the Spire
Players must manage resources and health carefully to survive increasingly difficult challenges.
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+4.0
Slice & Dice
Players must avoid defeat through resource and risk management; survival is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
StarVaders
Players must avoid failure by managing threats and resources carefully in challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Terraria
Survival mechanics, resource management, and avoiding death are important gameplay aspects.
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+4.0
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Gameplay emphasizes avoiding damage, managing resources, and surviving increasingly difficult floors.
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+4.0
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy
Players must avoid damage and manage resources like stamina and courage to survive boss encounters.
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+4.0
Voices of the Void
Survival mechanics such as hunger, stamina, equipment maintenance, and threat avoidance are core gameplay elements.
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+4.0
Void Sols: Prologue
Players must avoid death through stamina and health management, careful combat, and learning enemy patterns.
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+4.0
Voidigo
Players must avoid damage, manage health and ammo, and strategically defeat bosses to progress.
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+4.0
Wooden Ocean
Players must manage resources and overcome threats in a hostile, dark world with challenging enemies.
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