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.
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Mountain city builder with avalanche defenses and intertown trade
82% positive
1,488 reviews
Noble Fates
Fantasy colony sim with customizable castles and opinionated settlers
83% positive
1,487 reviews
Granny 3
First-person horror escape game with puzzles and sound-sensitive pursuers
92% positive
1,485 reviews
El Paso, Elsewhere
Supernatural third-person shooter through a shifting motel full of monsters
90% positive
1,483 reviews
Blind Trust
Two-player cooperative adventure where a deaf soldier guides a blind oracle
52% positive
Free
Vectorio Classic
Top-down survival base building with resource logistics and tower defense
93% positive
Free
Green Project
Open-world survival sim about restoring nature after a pandemic
80% positive
1,462 reviews
MewnBase
Top-down survival and base building as a space cat
93% positive
1,456 reviews
Bootstrap Island
VR survival roguelike with changing threats on a 17th-century island
82% positive
1,440 reviews
Shortest Trip to Earth
Space roguelike about managing a ship through randomized sectors
77% positive
1,435 reviews
Trigon: Space Story
Top-down space roguelike with tactical ship battles and permanent death
68% positive
1,423 reviews
The Thing: Remastered
Remastered third-person survival horror shooter with squad trust in Antarctica
90% positive
1,421 reviews
Ruinarch
Fantasy god-game sandbox where you turn villagers against each other
63% positive
1,420 reviews
Subterrain
Top-down survival horror against spreading infection in a Mars colony
76% positive
1,398 reviews
Scrutinized
Detective horror game about sorting reports while intruders stalk your home
89% positive
1,392 reviews
Welcome to ParadiZe
Isometric zombie action RPG with hackable undead companions
67% positive
1,387 reviews
UnReal World
Turn-based survival RPG about hunting and crafting in the ancient north
94% positive
1,383 reviews
Border Officer
Border checkpoint simulation with changing rules and family expenses
57% positive
1,378 reviews
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
Zombie outbreak strategy game racing to infect humanity before a cure
83% positive
1,373 reviews
Wayward
Turn-based wilderness survival roguelike with crafting and procedural islands
86% positive
1,370 reviews
Tin Can
First-person space survival sim about repairing a failing escape pod
84% positive
1,362 reviews
River Town Factory
Factory-building life sim mixing time travel and martial arts
89% positive
1,357 reviews
Abandon Ship
Fantasy naval strategy where captains can survive shipwrecks
73% positive
1,355 reviews
Zombie Shooter
Top-down zombie shooter with large hordes and upgradeable weapons
83% positive
1,346 reviews