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.
Empires of the Undergrowth
Ant colony RTS about building nests and commanding insect swarms
94% positive
19K reviews
Aliens: Dark Descent
Real-time squad tactics where every marine death is permanent
88% positive
19K reviews
Zombie Army Trilogy
Third-person World War II zombie shooter with co-op sniping
86% positive
19K reviews
Far Cry® 2
Open-world first-person shooter where fire, malaria, and factions shape combat
76% positive
19K reviews
Cube World
Open-world voxel action RPG with procedurally generated fantasy lands
36% positive
19K reviews
Mr.Mine
Idle mining game about upgrading drills and uncovering deeper secrets
92% positive
Free
Infection Free Zone
Zombie survival city builder set on real-world street maps
81% positive
19K reviews
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Episodic zombie adventure about family and difficult choices
84% positive
19K reviews
Resident Evil Revelations
Third-person survival horror aboard an abandoned, monster-filled cruise ship
81% positive
19K reviews
Breathedge
First-person space survival adventure among a wreck’s drifting debris
81% positive
18K reviews
Will To Live Online
Post-apocalyptic MMO shooter with survival needs and open-world PvP
69% positive
Free
RAGE
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter with armed vehicles and wasteland exploration
78% positive
18K reviews
Stronghold Crusader 2
Medieval real-time strategy mixing castle building, sieges, and desert economies
72% positive
18K reviews
Nightingale
Open-world survival crafting through Fae portals, with base building
66% positive
18K reviews
Dawn of Man
Prehistoric survival city builder spanning the Stone to Iron Age
87% positive
18K reviews
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive
18K reviews
Crysis Remastered
Sci-fi first-person shooter with stealth, vehicles, and open-ended combat
77% positive
18K reviews
Digger Online
Multiplayer sandbox action with block-built maps and combat modes
49% positive
18K reviews
Myth of Empires
Open-world survival sandbox about building fortresses and commanding armies
68% positive
18K reviews
Iron Snout
Free-to-play 2D brawler where a pig fights wolf hordes
98% positive
Free
State of Decay
Third-person, open-world zombie survival with scavenging and base building
85% positive
17K reviews
Homefront®: The Revolution
Open-world first-person shooter about liberating occupied Philadelphia through guerrilla warfare
61% positive
17K reviews
How to Survive
Top-down zombie survival game with island scavenging and crafting
83% positive
17K reviews
Craft The World
Sandbox colony sim about building and defending a dwarf fortress
88% positive
17K reviews