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
3,523 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Driftland: The Magic Revival
Fantasy real-time strategy with floating islands and indirect unit control
74% positive
1,494 reviews
Garbage: Hobo Prophecy
A survival simulator about homelessness, camp building, and automatic fights
73% positive
Free
Demo Wild Terra 2: New Lands
Medieval sandbox MMORPG built around crafting, building, and survival
61% positive
1,484 reviews
El Paso, Elsewhere
Supernatural third-person shooter through a shifting motel full of monsters
90% positive
1,483 reviews
Demo Ground of Aces – The World War II Airbase Builder
A World War II base builder focused on aircraft and crews
82% positive
1,482 reviews
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Dungeon Settlers
Colony-building strategy where your settlement supplies expeditions into changing dungeons
78% positive
1,479 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
Demo Bootstrap Island
VR survival roguelike with changing threats on a 17th-century island
79% positive
1,475 reviews
Scrutinized
Detective horror game about sorting reports while intruders stalk your home
89% positive
1,473 reviews
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
Multiplayer Backrooms horror with a shapeshifter hiding among scientists
83% positive
1,471 reviews
Green Project
Open-world survival sim about restoring nature after a pandemic
81% positive
1,470 reviews
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Mountain city builder with avalanche defenses and intertown trade
81% positive
1,466 reviews
Demo The Last Plague: Blight
Hardcore open-world survival crafting against a spreading disease
87% positive
1,465 reviews
MewnBase
Top-down survival and base building as a space cat
93% positive
1,456 reviews
Deadly Days
Strategy roguelite about scavenging zombie cities with unpredictable gear
86% positive
1,454 reviews
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Blood Money: Lethal Eden
First-person live-action thriller about surviving captivity in a scam compound
92% positive
1,446 reviews
Directive 8020
Space horror where an alien can impersonate your crewmates
64% positive
1,432 reviews
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Medieval siege survival strategy built around crafting and nighttime scavenging
78% positive
1,425 reviews
The Underground Man
A post-apocalyptic adventure about an underground survivor venturing onto the surface
79% positive
1,420 reviews
Ruinarch
Fantasy god-game sandbox where you turn villagers against each other
63% positive
1,420 reviews
ARMORED HEAD
First-person arena shooter with robot waves and hidden secrets
98% positive
1,411 reviews
Demo Trigon: Space Story
Top-down space roguelike with tactical ship battles and permanent death
68% positive
1,406 reviews
Demo Subterrain
Top-down survival horror against spreading infection in a Mars colony
76% positive
1,398 reviews