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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
7,62 High Calibre
Players must manage resources, avoid death, and tactically survive hostile environments and enemies.
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+4.0
ATOMINE
Players must avoid damage and survive waves of enemies and bosses; permadeath adds survival tension.
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+4.0
Dungeon Drafters
Players must avoid death and manage resources carefully to progress through dungeons and bosses.
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+4.0
Gods vs Horrors
Players must manage resources and team composition to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Iron Core: Mech Survivor
Core gameplay revolves around surviving waves of enemies, managing resources, and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Abandon Ship
Core gameplay involves avoiding death, managing resources, and overcoming threats.
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+4.0
Decision: Red Daze
Players manage resources, stamina, and defend settlements to avoid failure.
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+4.0
Haunted Lands
Players must manage health carefully and avoid death to progress, emphasizing survival under threat.
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+4.0
One Way To Die
Main challenge is to survive random deadly events; survival is difficult and often luck-based.
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+4.0
Slain: Back from Hell
Focus on avoiding death, managing health, and overcoming lethal enemies and traps
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+4.0
STRAFE: Gold Edition
Players must manage health, armor, and resources carefully to avoid death and complete runs.
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+4.0
The Chaos Engine
Players must manage health, avoid damage, and survive waves of enemies and environmental hazards.
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+4.0
WW2: Bunker Simulator
Strong emphasis on managing hunger, thirst, fatigue, and defending against enemy attacks to stay alive.
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+4.0
Aarklash: Legacy
Players must avoid party wipe by managing health, positioning, and countering enemy threats.
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+4.0
Escape from Playtime
Core motivation is avoiding threats, managing resources, and surviving enemy encounters.
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+4.0
Horizon Shift
Core gameplay involves avoiding death by managing threats and protecting the horizon line.
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+4.0
Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis TD
Players must prevent enemy breaches and manage resources to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Lost Rift
Strong survival mechanics including resource gathering, threat avoidance, and risk management in PvPvE zones.
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+4.0
Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)
Gameplay emphasizes avoiding death, managing resources, and surviving overwhelming odds.
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+4.0
Endless Road: Reborn
Players must manage health, stamina, and resources carefully to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
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+4.0
Rex Rocket
Players must avoid instant death traps and manage health carefully to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Slave Zero X
Focus on avoiding death, managing health and meter, and overcoming challenging enemies.
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+4.0
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
Core gameplay revolves around avoiding death and surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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+4.0
Diehard Dungeon
Players must avoid traps, manage health, and survive waves of enemies to progress; survival is a key motivation.
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