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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
Backpack Jianghu
Players must manage resources and avoid defeat to survive through encounters and reach the final battle.
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+4.0
Cossacks: Art of War
Resource management and army survival are key challenges, requiring careful defense and planning.
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+4.0
Darwin Project
Players manage cold meter, resources, and avoid threats to stay alive in shrinking zones.
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+4.0
Day of Infamy
Players must avoid death, manage resources, and survive enemy attacks.
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+4.0
Environmental Station Alpha
Players must avoid death and manage scarce health to survive challenging encounters
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+4.0
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Players manage resources, health, and threats to stay alive in a hostile environment.
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+4.0
Gloomhaven
Players must manage resources and avoid failure to keep characters alive and progress.
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+4.0
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
Players must manage health, avoid traps, and overcome threats to progress and survive runs.
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+4.0
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator
Players must manage risk of gladiator death and maintain team viability to survive and progress.
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+4.0
Minecraft
Survival mode challenges players to avoid threats, manage resources, and stay alive.
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+4.0
Our Darker Purpose
Strong survival elements with resource management and avoiding death.
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+4.0
Piggy Poggy Pog
Players must avoid hazards and enemies with one-hit deaths, requiring careful resourceful play.
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+4.0
Pirates Outlaws
Players must manage health, ammo, and resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Silent Hill
Resource scarcity, weapon durability, and health management create survival challenges.
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+4.0
Stygian: Outer Gods
Survival mechanics include resource management, limited ammo, health and sanity systems, and tactical avoidance of…
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+4.0
Teamfight Tactics
Players manage health and resources to avoid elimination; survival is key to winning matches.
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+4.0
The Age of Decadence
Survival through avoiding death and managing limited resources is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Strong survival elements with emphasis on avoiding death, managing resources, and strategic defense.
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+4.0
TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2
Players must avoid crashing and manage risks to complete races successfully.
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+4.0
Vagrant Story
Players must manage risk, health, and resources to survive challenging encounters.
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+4.0
Warstone TD
Players must avoid failure by strategic defense and resource management under threat of enemy waves
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+4.0
Backrooms Society
Survival elements like resource management, stamina, and entity avoidance are core gameplay features.
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+4.0
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic)
Managing player injuries and survival is a key strategic element affecting team success.
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+4.0
Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Strong emphasis on unit preservation, avoiding casualties, and overcoming threats.
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