Best Survival games on PC
Games centered on staying alive against hostile players, creatures, or environments. Players fight or avoid threats while working toward objectives or lasting as long as possible.
- Frequent threats to survival
- Combat or threat avoidance
- Death as a central risk
Related: Open World Survival Craft, Survival Horror, Multiplayer, Zombies
3,252 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
93% positive
131K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
91% positive
128K reviews
Metro Exodus
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter mixing open exploration, stealth, and survival horror
89% positive
128K reviews
STALZONE
Open-world extraction shooter where death costs loot, not your gear
72% positive
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The Isle
Open-world dinosaur survival where growing up means avoiding other players
80% positive
123K reviews
Subnautica 2
Underwater survival adventure on an alien world with optional co-op
91% positive
121K reviews
Scrap Mechanic
Physics-based survival sandbox for building machines with friends
92% positive
120K reviews
The Long Dark
First-person survival sandbox against cold, hunger, and wildlife
89% positive
120K reviews
Frostpunk
Survival city builder where heat, resources, and laws decide lives
92% positive
120K reviews
Brotato
Arena survival roguelike with six weapons and rapid runs
95% positive
119K reviews
Outlast
First-person survival horror where you can only run and hide
96% positive
118K reviews
V Rising
Open-world vampire survival RPG with castle building and blood hunting
88% positive
117K reviews
Demo Resident Evil Village
First-person survival horror through a village of relentless creatures
95% positive
116K reviews
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Open-world survival FPS built around exploration and atmospheric danger
79% positive
115K reviews
ARK: Survival Ascended
Open-world survival sandbox about taming dinosaurs and building bases
59% positive
114K reviews
Space Engineers
Open-world space sandbox for building and breaking physics-driven machines
88% positive
108K reviews
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
Open-world tactical shooter built around stealth, squad raids, and co-op
78% positive
107K reviews
Subnautica: Below Zero
Open-world underwater survival adventure with crafting and an arctic mystery
90% positive
106K reviews
Metro 2033 Redux
Story-driven survival-horror FPS beneath a ruined, toxic Moscow
91% positive
105K reviews
Demo Megabonk
Survival roguelike with randomized upgrades and items that work together
94% positive
105K reviews
SCUM
Open-world survival sandbox with detailed metabolism, crafting, and base building
73% positive
105K reviews
Don't Starve
Single-player wilderness survival in randomly generated worlds with permanent death
96% positive
104K reviews
Kenshi
Open-world squad RPG about surviving and shaping a hostile wasteland
95% positive
104K reviews
Enshrouded
Open-world survival action RPG with voxel building and online co-op
84% positive
103K reviews