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.
Ratopia
Side-scrolling colony sim built around rat economics and survival
88% positive
4,891 reviews
Bum Simulator
First-person survival sandbox with weaponized pigeons and cardboard bases
88% positive
4,882 reviews
Stronghold 3 Gold
Medieval castle-building strategy with combat campaigns and nighttime sieges
33% positive
4,864 reviews
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Isometric stealth tactics in Edo Japan with coordinated team attacks
93% positive
4,852 reviews
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
Action RPG tower defense with loot and four-player co-op
66% positive
4,840 reviews
Staxel
Voxel farming sandbox with village building and shared farms
78% positive
4,835 reviews
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Top-down tower defense against a fluid enemy that floods terrain
96% positive
4,829 reviews
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Isometric sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat inside a hazardous Dome
77% positive
4,816 reviews
Dead Maze
Cooperative 2D zombie survival with scavenging and camp building
75% positive
Free
Zompiercer
First-person zombie survival with a train you build into a base
88% positive
4,806 reviews
Ultimate Zombie Defense
Top-down zombie survival shooter with buildable defenses and co-op
85% positive
4,801 reviews
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
First-person stealth horror with a neighbor who counters your moves
95% positive
Free
Wedding Witch
Top-down action roguelike with potion-driven spells and witch transformations
90% positive
4,720 reviews
Lightyear Frontier
Open-world mech farming and crafting on an alien planet
84% positive
4,714 reviews
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Third-person zombie shooter with sniping and four-player co-op
88% positive
4,706 reviews
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Cozy rooftop survival sim with farming, crafting, and robot helpers
84% positive
4,691 reviews
This Land Is My Land
Open-world stealth action with camp management and frontier resistance
68% positive
4,658 reviews
Flotsam
Floating colony builder that turns ocean trash into homes
81% positive
4,634 reviews
Until We Die
Side-scrolling strategy game about directing workers to defend a subway station
63% positive
4,633 reviews
Nomad
Open-world survival sandbox with zombies, crafting, and player raids
60% positive
Free
One Hour One Life
Multiplayer survival game built around hour-long lives and family legacies
80% positive
4,621 reviews
Pathologic Classic HD
First-person survival horror in a town consumed by plague
88% positive
4,613 reviews
Surviving the Aftermath
Post-apocalyptic colony sim about building, scavenging, and surviving disasters
71% positive
4,588 reviews
KUBOOM
Free-to-play first-person shooter with team battles and deathmatches
64% positive
Free