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.
Metro 2033 Redux
Story-driven survival-horror FPS beneath a ruined, toxic Moscow
92% positive
142K reviews
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Open-world survival FPS built around exploration and atmospheric danger
80% positive
141K reviews
Fallout 76
Open-world multiplayer RPG about rebuilding post-nuclear West Virginia
72% positive
141K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
92% positive
139K reviews
Outlast
First-person survival horror where you can only run and hide
96% positive
139K reviews
Stumble Guys
Free-to-play party battle royale with chaotic obstacle-course races
85% positive
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Frostpunk
Survival city builder where heat, resources, and laws decide lives
93% positive
138K reviews
V Rising
Open-world vampire survival RPG with castle building and blood hunting
89% positive
137K reviews
Metro Exodus
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter mixing open exploration, stealth, and survival horror
90% positive
136K reviews
Space Engineers
Open-world space sandbox for building and breaking physics-driven machines
89% positive
134K reviews
Far Cry 3
Open-world first-person shooter about surviving a lawless tropical archipelago
88% positive
134K reviews
Killing Floor 2
Co-op first-person horde shooter with classes, gore, and mutant clones
88% positive
129K reviews
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
First-person survival horror inside a hostile rural American house
95% positive
127K reviews
SCUM
Open-world survival sandbox with detailed metabolism, crafting, and base building
74% positive
127K reviews
The Long Dark
First-person survival sandbox against cold, hunger, and wildlife
89% positive
124K reviews
Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
90% positive
123K reviews
Scrap Mechanic
Physics-based survival sandbox for building machines with friends
92% positive
123K reviews
The Isle
Open-world dinosaur survival where growing up means avoiding other players
80% positive
121K reviews
Brotato
Arena survival roguelike with six weapons and rapid runs
96% positive
119K reviews
ARK: Survival Ascended
Open-world survival sandbox about taming dinosaurs and building bases
60% positive
118K reviews
My Summer Car
Open-world survival simulator about building and maintaining a car
95% positive
118K reviews
Conan Exiles Enhanced
Open-world survival crafting with city building and siege warfare
79% positive
118K reviews
Days Gone
Open-world zombie action with motorcycle travel and massive hordes
93% positive
117K reviews
Kenshi
Open-world squad RPG about surviving and shaping a hostile wasteland
96% positive
117K reviews