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Survival Games

Find games built around managing supplies and surviving environmental pressure. Choose crafting, base building, survival conditions, and supported solo or co-op play.

38 accepted games Taxonomy v3 Source scores weighted by evidence

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Choose what you want to survive.

Keep yourself supplied as the world puts pressure on your food, water, oxygen, or other conditions. Look for crafting, base building, or games with a dedicated survival mode. Horror themes and enemy waves alone do not establish this loop.

38 games before play-style filters. Filters combine. Games with unconfirmed details remain in All, and a game can support several activities or play modes. Start with all years to include older classics.

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Best reviewed blends the source score with rating volume. Release order is oldest first, and A–Z is title order. Unusually high scores with very small samples are treated as uncorroborated outliers until more players weigh in.

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Simulation 31 Root Survival Sim 22 Subgenre Exploration 21 Gameplay facet Crafting 20 Gameplay facet Open World 15 Framework Resource Management 14 Gameplay facet Base Building 13 Gameplay facet Action-Adventure 11 Root

Why these games appear

How entries qualify

Sustained resource, condition, shelter, or environmental pressure is a central progression structure; survival is the loop, not just the story context.

Include when

The player repeatedly manages supplies, conditions, shelter, or environmental risks as a central progression loop, including survival-simulation hybrids such as Valheim.

Leave out when

Do not assign Survival to Survival Horror, Survivor Action, or a story that merely uses survival language when resource and environmental pressure do not organize repeatable play.