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Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Games where survival stands out from the other motivations.
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+4.0
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
Focus on avoiding defeat, managing resources, and preserving forces under threat; survival is a key gameplay element
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+4.0
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Players must avoid damage and death, manage health and resources, and overcome threats to progress.
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+4.0
LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE
Players manage resources and avoid failure in challenging dungeon exploration and boss fights.
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+4.0
Machick 2
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing resources during runs.
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+4.0
PAYDAY 2
Players must manage health, resources, and avoid failure to survive waves of enemies.
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+4.0
QuiVr
Players must defend gates and survive waves; failure results in game over.
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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
Rollerdrome
Players must avoid damage and manage resources to stay alive in challenging combat.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Players must manage threats, defend cities, and maintain resources to survive and thrive.
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+4.0
Spellsworn
Core gameplay revolves around survival in a shrinking arena and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Super Crate Box
Players must avoid death from enemies and hazards, managing threats to survive longer.
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+4.0
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Players must manage resources and avoid death in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Time Break Chronicles
Players manage resources, character stamina, and tactical defense to avoid failure and progress through runs.
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+4.0
V Rising
Survival mechanics include resource gathering, managing sunlight vulnerability, and defending base.
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+4.0
Vagante
Players must avoid death from traps and enemies, manage health carefully, and survive through difficult levels.
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+4.0
Warriors of the Nile 2
Managing health and resources to survive through encounters is a key gameplay element.
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+4.0
Wireworks
Core gameplay involves surviving waves by building effective defenses and managing resources.
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+4.0
Wizardry 8
Players must manage resources, positioning, and tactics to survive difficult encounters and threats.
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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
Sid Meier's Civilization
Players must manage threats, resources, and defense to maintain and expand their civilization.
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+4.0
Age of Fear: The Undead King
Players must manage unit health, avoid losses, and strategically survive challenging battles.
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+4.0
Breach Wanderers
Gameplay centers on managing resources and surviving increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30™
Core gameplay involves keeping squad alive and overcoming enemy threats through tactics
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+4.0
Buriedbornes - Dungeon RPG
Players must manage resources and avoid death in challenging dungeon runs.
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