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.
Wrongworld
Open-world survival crafting across a strange, randomly generated world
94% positive
557 reviews
Nodes Escape
Text-based escape-room puzzles about finding clues and unlocking doors
85% positive
554 reviews
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Turn-based survival roguelike with crafting, base building, and zombies
87% positive
547 reviews
Caravaneer 2
Post-apocalyptic trading RPG with caravan survival and turn-based combat
95% positive
546 reviews
Kingdom's Deck
Card-based kingdom builder balancing resource production and siege defense
73% positive
543 reviews
Islet Online
Sandbox MMORPG about building, crafting, and shaping an ecosystem
77% positive
Free
StarsOne
Sci-fi survival sandbox about building a base and finding colonists
74% positive
534 reviews
Rogalia
Open-world fantasy sandbox RPG with crafting, farming, and food-based leveling
70% positive
Free
Eaten Alive
Point-and-click zombie survival across post-apocalyptic Boston with survivor choices
38% positive
530 reviews
Space Trash Scavenger
Space survival crafting with a movable base and automated recycling
83% positive
528 reviews
Urge
Open-world survival horror where your actions spread dangerous fog
90% positive
524 reviews
Forsaken Isle
Top-down survival RPG with crafting, exploration, and base building
71% positive
521 reviews
Darfall
Fantasy real-time strategy with daytime building and nighttime undead attacks
72% positive
504 reviews
Castle Craft
Voxel castle-building strategy with destructible terrain and enemy sieges
82% positive
502 reviews
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
3D tower defense with maze building and movable player weapons
89% positive
501 reviews
SAHUR: Escape Together
Co-op survival horror with scavenging, chases, and meme characters
76% positive
501 reviews
Feed the Deep
Underwater roguelike about collecting resources before oxygen runs out
89% positive
483 reviews
Pinball Storm: Lokanta
Top-down roguelike shooter where bouncing marbles fight enemy waves
70% positive
482 reviews
Night is Coming
Colony survival strategy with nighttime monsters and temporary settlements
63% positive
469 reviews
Zombie Cure Lab
Colony management sim about curing zombies and defending your lab
68% positive
467 reviews
Broventure: The Wild Co-op
2D action roguelite with co-op, boss fights, and camp upgrades
72% positive
466 reviews
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Medieval fantasy city builder with moral choices and real-time combat
58% positive
458 reviews
Stonies
Free-to-play Stone Age village sim about growing a tribe
53% positive
Free
Evolution Board Game
Turn-based board game about adapting species with trait cards
84% positive
450 reviews