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.
The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Pixel-art strategy game about guiding survivors through zombie-filled locations
64% positive
899 reviews
Infinite Tao
Roguelite survival with automatic attacks and magic treasure combinations
80% positive
885 reviews
Total Lockdown
Online battle royale shooter set across a cyberpunk skyscraper
75% positive
Free
Outpost Zero
Open-world survival crafting with robot workers and rival raids
48% positive
853 reviews
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
Time-travel survival crafting with base building from dinosaurs to space
69% positive
848 reviews
Creature Crafter
Creature-building sandbox with collectible body parts and multiplayer exploration
88% positive
843 reviews
Operation: New Earth
Persistent sci-fi MMO strategy with base building and territorial warfare
60% positive
Free
The Slaverian Trucker
Open-world truck survival sim with repairs, deliveries, and smuggling
85% positive
836 reviews
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Space colony builder with vertical bases and custom escape ships
70% positive
833 reviews
Anarchy: Wolf's law
Open-world first-person shooter about seizing territory and managing production
77% positive
821 reviews
Backrooms: Extractions
First-person co-op horror built around rescue and extraction missions
74% positive
819 reviews
Survival Machine
Third-person survival adventure about building and defending a moving fortress
70% positive
808 reviews
Balrum
Open-world isometric RPG with turn-based combat, crafting, and farming
79% positive
807 reviews
Artifact Seeker: Resurrection
Top-down survivor roguelite built around collecting and combining artifacts
81% positive
803 reviews
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS
Third-person action RPG mixing block building with a guided story
91% positive
797 reviews
Genome Guardian
Top-down roguelite shooter with DNA-combined weapons and customizable turrets
92% positive
785 reviews
Shardpunk
Turn-based squad tactics and scavenging ahead of a rat horde
93% positive
783 reviews
Marauder
Tactical RPG about building a squad in a war-torn town
74% positive
780 reviews
Winter Survival
First-person winter survival with crafting and a sanity system
63% positive
776 reviews
DEATH IN UNISON
First-person co-op horror with prison duties and walkie-talkie teamwork
96% positive
773 reviews
Dysterra
First-person survival crafting on a ruined Earth with PvP
56% positive
Free
Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
Roman survival city builder with barbarian raids and mythical beasts
84% positive
771 reviews
Total Miner
Open-world voxel sandbox with scripting tools and adventure modes
78% positive
770 reviews
Survivors of the Dawn
Top-down sci-fi horde shooter with weapon builds and wave-changing terminals
74% positive
770 reviews