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.
Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
Top-down survival action RPG with stealth and radioactive anomalies
88% positive
1,883 reviews
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution
VR survival horror with zombie combat and nighttime scavenging
64% positive
1,869 reviews
Minimalist Tower Defense
Top-down tower defense with daytime building and nighttime swarms
95% positive
1,867 reviews
Conan Unconquered
Real-time strategy with base building and escalating enemy waves
68% positive
1,862 reviews
Genesis Online
Free-to-play multiplayer sandbox with building, farming, and dungeon exploration
32% positive
Free
Dawn of Defiance
Open-world survival crafting as a Spartan defying Greek gods
77% positive
1,853 reviews
Saurian
Open-world dinosaur survival sim from hatchling to adulthood
60% positive
1,852 reviews
Death in the Water 2
Underwater survival-horror shooter where a Kraken turns sea life hostile
83% positive
1,850 reviews
Wild Terra Online
Open-world medieval sandbox RPG with player-built settlements and survival
60% positive
Free
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
88% positive
1,844 reviews
Gnomes
Turn-based tower defense where movable gnomes guard crops from goblins
95% positive
1,841 reviews
Dead In Vinland
Turn-based survival management for a Viking family on an island
77% positive
1,836 reviews
From Glory To Goo
Sci-fi base-building RTS about defending a colony from alien Goo
96% positive
1,833 reviews
Last Train Outta' Wormtown
Asymmetrical multiplayer action where touching sand reveals cowboys to a worm
94% positive
1,818 reviews
KeeperRL
Roguelike dungeon builder with minion raids and turn-based combat
83% positive
1,812 reviews
Drake Hollow
Third-person survival adventure with creature care and village defense
77% positive
1,807 reviews
CONVRGENCE
Single-player VR extraction shooter with procedural raids and a dog
88% positive
1,801 reviews
SURV1V3
VR zombie survival shooter with scavenging and online co-op
81% positive
1,796 reviews
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Medieval siege survival strategy built around crafting and nighttime scavenging
79% positive
1,770 reviews
Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Subway station management sim built around controlling commuter crowds
81% positive
1,769 reviews
CHKN
Open-world survival sandbox where you build creatures block by block
80% positive
Free
Thrive
Evolution simulation about adapting an alien cell to survive
92% positive
1,756 reviews
Escape Dead Island
Third-person zombie mystery with stealth, combat, and island exploration
61% positive
1,744 reviews
Ad Infinitum
First-person horror between World War I trenches and a family manor
78% positive
1,741 reviews