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.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
First-person horror as a night technician among active animatronics
90% positive
13K reviews
Caves of Qud
Open-world science-fantasy roguelike shaped by mutations, factions, and physical simulation
95% positive
13K reviews
Amnesia: The Bunker
First-person survival horror in a World War I bunker stalked by a monster
93% positive
13K reviews
DOOM 3
Horror-focused first-person shooter in a demon-infested Mars research facility
86% positive
13K reviews
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Co-op survival crafting beneath Moria with dwarven base building
81% positive
12K reviews
Kingdom: New Lands
Side-scrolling survival strategy across islands threatened by nightly attacks
85% positive
12K reviews
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
Sandbox battle simulator for staging huge, mismatched army fights
77% positive
12K reviews
Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection
First-person sci-fi shooter with four-player co-op against Xenomorphs
62% positive
12K reviews
ASKA
Viking survival colony sim built around managing working villagers
80% positive
12K reviews
Pathologic 2
Story-driven survival RPG in a plague-stricken town with limited time
92% positive
12K reviews
The Beast Inside
First-person horror adventure linking two timelines through a diary
83% positive
12K reviews
Life is Feudal: Your Own
Medieval survival sandbox with terraforming, crafting, and private worlds
66% positive
12K reviews
Mitos.is: The Game
Free-to-play multiplayer survival game where cells grow by eating others
81% positive
Free
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Third-person survival adventure tracing early hominids across prehistoric Africa
79% positive
12K reviews
Bloons TD 5
Colorful tower defense with upgradeable towers and online co-op
95% positive
12K reviews
In Silence
Multiplayer survival horror where sound guides the monster's hunt
74% positive
12K reviews
Night of the Dead
Open-world zombie survival crafting with nightly tower-defense hordes
77% positive
12K reviews
Dark and Light
Open-world fantasy survival with creature taming and elemental magic
52% positive
12K reviews
Far Cry®
Tropical first-person shooter with open areas and tactical combat
82% positive
12K reviews
ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
Battle royale matches where tribes command dinosaur armies
66% positive
12K reviews
60 Seconds!
Survival strategy with a timed scramble before nuclear fallout
85% positive
12K reviews
RIFT
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with flexible classes and roaming invasions
74% positive
Free
DYSMANTLE
Top-down survival RPG about dismantling an island for resources
91% positive
12K reviews
Granny
First-person survival horror about escaping a trap-filled locked house
94% positive
12K reviews