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Survival
Avoiding failure or staying alive
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Top picks
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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+5.0
Stationeers
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, resource scarcity, and environmental hazards to stay alive.
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+5.0
Zardy's Maze
Core gameplay centers on avoiding death, managing resources like flashlight battery, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Iron Blight
Central theme of avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats in a hostile environment.
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+5.0
Midnight Heist
Core gameplay centers on avoiding failure and surviving entity hunts through stealth and hiding.
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+5.0
Oxygen: First Breath
Core gameplay revolves around managing threats and keeping colony alive under harsh conditions.
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+5.0
FLATHEAD
Core gameplay centers on avoiding failure and escaping the monster by managing risk and points.
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+5.0
Space Haven
Core gameplay revolves around managing resources and avoiding failure to keep crew and ships alive.
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+5.0
Zombie Panic! Source
Central theme is survival against zombie hordes with resource and team management to avoid death.
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+5.0
60 Parsecs!
Core gameplay centers on managing threats, resources, and crew wellbeing to stay alive.
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+5.0
60 Seconds!
Core gameplay is about managing resources and decisions to survive nuclear fallout.
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+5.0
Boris and the Dark Survival
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding capture, managing stamina, and surviving increasingly difficult levels.
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+5.0
Hellbound: Survival Mode
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies and managing health and ammo.
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+5.0
State of Decay
Core gameplay is about managing threats, resources, and staying alive in hostile environment.
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+5.0
Stoneshard: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around managing hunger, thirst, wounds, and status effects to stay alive.
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+5.0
Surviving Mars
Core gameplay revolves around survival challenges, resource scarcity, and avoiding colony failure.
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+5.0
Nasty Zombies
Primary goal is to avoid death by managing resources, positioning, and combat against relentless zombie waves.
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+5.0
Takoyaki Party Survival
Core gameplay revolves around managing nutrition and bodily limits to survive as long as possible.
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+5.0
Obama Maze
Core motivation is to avoid capture and survive the maze; resource and stamina management critical.
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+5.0
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Strong focus on avoiding failure, managing resources, and keeping soldiers alive.
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+5.0
Pathologic Classic HD
Core gameplay revolves around managing health, infection, hunger, fatigue, and reputation to survive.
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+5.0
Cronos: The New Dawn
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death, managing scarce resources, and overcoming threats.
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+5.0
Fatal Twelve
Survival is the central theme, with players navigating threats and strategic elimination to stay alive.
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+5.0
Hell Let Loose
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and strategic defense.
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+5.0
A Street Cat's Tale
Central gameplay revolves around managing hunger, health, and avoiding dangers to survive as a stray kitten.
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