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
1,141 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
First- and third-person battle royale shooter with tactical survival
61% positive
Free
Terraria
2D sandbox adventure built around digging, crafting, and boss fights
97% positive
1.6M reviews
Rust
Open-world multiplayer survival built around crafting, bases, and raids
87% positive
1.4M reviews
Apex Legends™
Free-to-play squad battle royale with heroes and tactical abilities
68% positive
Free
Left 4 Dead 2
Co-op zombie FPS where unpredictable hordes demand teamwork
98% positive
1.1M reviews
Dead by Daylight
Asymmetrical horror where four survivors evade one player-controlled killer
78% positive
936K reviews
ARK: Survival Evolved
Open-world survival crafting with dinosaur taming and base building
83% positive
778K reviews
Among Us
Online social deduction party game with hidden killers aboard spaceships
92% positive
749K reviews
The Forest
First-person survival horror with base building and mutant cannibals
96% positive
683K reviews
Unturned
Free-to-play open-world zombie survival with crafting, bases, and PvP
91% positive
Free
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
94% positive
552K reviews
Don't Starve Together
Difficult open-world survival crafting built for cooperative play
95% positive
543K reviews
Dying Light
Open-world zombie action with first-person parkour and nighttime chases
95% positive
496K reviews
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
95% positive
489K reviews
Project Zomboid
Open-world zombie survival sandbox where every mistake can end a life
94% positive
483K reviews
DayZ
Hardcore online survival sandbox where every stranger poses a risk
78% positive
470K reviews
Fallout 4
Open-world post-apocalyptic RPG with gunplay, choices, and settlement building
81% positive
429K reviews
R.E.P.O.
Online co-op horror about hauling fragile valuables past monsters
96% positive
425K reviews
No Man's Sky
Open-world space sandbox across a procedurally generated galaxy
85% positive
420K reviews
ARC Raiders
Third-person extraction shooter mixing machine hunts with player encounters
82% positive
416K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive
401K reviews
Bloons TD 6
Cartoon tower defense with upgradeable monkeys and four-player co-op
97% positive
395K reviews
Subnautica
First-person underwater survival crafting on a dangerous alien ocean
97% positive
380K reviews
Deep Rock Galactic
Class-based co-op FPS about mining procedural caves and fighting aliens
97% positive
380K reviews