Survival Game
Resource management and living from day to day are staples of this recently blooming genre. Survival games focus on their players doing everything they can to get by in different conditions with varying levels of danger day by day, hour by hour, area by area.
- Minecraft is a sandbox game that revolves around using building blocks to create anything you want. At night, monsters come out; make sure to build a shelter before that happens. The game also has multiplayer capabilities.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Oculus Experiences
- Kindle Fire
- FreeBSD
- Playstation
- Fire TV
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
- NetBSD
- Oculus Rift
- OpenBSD
- No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- Xbox
- Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.
- Metro 2033 is a survival horror first-person shooter video game, based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2033 was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine, and was released on Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in March 2010.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Epic Games Store
- Steam
- Playstation
- Xbox
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter video game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007. Represent entire series of STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl games.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- For the free-to-play battle royale mode, see Fortnite Battle Royale. Fortnite is a team-based game of survival where you group up, craft weapons and build a base to protect yourself from the undead horde.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Playstation
- Xbox
- In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Wine
- Steam
- Subnautica is an open world underwater adventure game where you're thrust into an alien world submersed underwater. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - All while trying to survive.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- OSVR
- HTC Vive
- Oculus Rift
- Based in the Fallout universe, Fallout Shelter has players building the perfect vault to protect dwellers from the apocalyptic Wasteland.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Xbox
- As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and its infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- Xbox
- Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- The compass can be used to determine the direction to North, and when combined with the GPS it can be used to navigate to predefined locations.
- Play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
- The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam