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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Kingdoms and Castles
Medieval city builder with modular castles and Viking raids
93% positive
32K reviews
Dead Frontier 2
Online third-person survival horror with scarce ammo and zombie scavenging
70% positive
Free
Generation Zero®
Open-world survival shooter about guerrilla warfare against deadly machines
75% positive
31K reviews
Lost Light
Multiplayer extraction shooter where escaping determines what loot you keep
55% positive
Free
Stacklands
Card-based village builder about stacking resources and surviving hunger
96% positive
31K reviews
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarven colony simulation where deep systems turn failure into history
94% positive
31K reviews
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open-world space survival sandbox with freeform ship and base building
78% positive
30K reviews
Demo Hello Neighbor
First-person stealth horror against a neighbor who learns your tactics
88% positive
30K reviews
Soul Dossier
Asymmetrical horror matches pitting human survivors against a ghost
82% positive
Free
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Top-down action roguelite with active aiming and evolving builds
90% positive
30K reviews
Resident Evil
Fixed-camera survival horror with scarce supplies and mansion puzzles
91% positive
30K reviews
Hatred
Isometric shooter about a gunman's killing spree through city outskirts
85% positive
30K reviews
Bendy and the Ink Machine
First-person cartoon horror adventure in an abandoned animation studio
90% positive
29K reviews
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Episodic adventure about a child's choices in a zombie apocalypse
97% positive
29K reviews
Dark Deception
First-person horror maze game built around running from monsters
87% positive
Free
Total War: ATTILA
Historical grand strategy of Roman survival and real-time warfare
81% positive
28K reviews
Dead Space™ 2
Third-person sci-fi horror shooter built around strategic dismemberment
94% positive
28K reviews
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Episodic third-person survival horror with paired character switching
78% positive
28K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
First-person survival horror with cameras, a mask, and animatronics
93% positive
27K reviews
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
Top-down twin-stick shooter built around four-player teamwork and friendly fire
90% positive
27K reviews
UBOAT
World War II submarine simulator centered on crew survival and command
81% positive
27K reviews
Demo Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Soviet-themed city builder with detailed logistics and planned-economy management
90% positive
27K reviews
Demo Contraband Police
First-person border checkpoint simulation with searches, chases, and shootouts
94% positive
27K reviews
Dead Island Definitive Edition
Open-world zombie action with first-person melee and four-player co-op
82% positive
26K reviews