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.
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Open-world survival horror with shelter building and strange anomalies
37% positive
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5 NIGHTS AT BOBR KURWA
First-person survival horror defending a hut from a monstrous beaver
93% positive
371 reviews
Catizens
Cat colony sim where personalities shape town building and jobs
81% positive
367 reviews
Of Life and Land
Colony-building strategy game where settlements reshape living ecosystems
86% positive
367 reviews
Choice of Life: Wild Islands
Card-based visual novel where island survival depends on choices
93% positive
361 reviews
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Top-down action roguelite with rivals racing for the last escape pod
83% positive
360 reviews
Home and Dungeon
Fantasy RPG mixing dungeon exploration, crafting, and town-building
85% positive
354 reviews
Exile to Death
Survival action RPG with crafting on a war-scarred Earth
67% positive
351 reviews
RailGods of Hysterra
Cosmic horror survival and crafting aboard a living train
54% positive
345 reviews
Alien Marauder
Top-down survival RTS about building defenses against alien swarms
62% positive
340 reviews
Organs Please
Dystopian management sim screening arrivals to build an escape ship
83% positive
334 reviews
Undead Citadel
VR action adventure with physics-based swordplay against undead hordes
73% positive
334 reviews
Another Try
Open-world zombie survival through scavenging, crafting, and base defense
50% positive
333 reviews
Crab God
Side-scrolling underwater colony strategy guiding crabs to protect an egg
82% positive
329 reviews
Mercury Fallen
Isometric sci-fi colony sim about rebuilding a ruined planetary outpost
77% positive
321 reviews
Gone: Survival
First-person open-world survival with crafting, shelters, and zombies
44% positive
319 reviews
Immortal Farmer: System’s Mandate
2D farming RPG mixing cultivation, demon battles, and romance
70% positive
317 reviews
Vapour
First-person horror shooter with spell combat, puzzles, and demons
60% positive
315 reviews
Broken Universe - Tower Defense
2D tower defense across planets with player-shaped enemy paths
91% positive
313 reviews
Into the Emberlands
Roguelite exploration and village rebuilding with a dwindling lantern
81% positive
313 reviews
This Grand Life 2
Life simulation about managing households through an inflation-driven economy
88% positive
313 reviews
The Last FARMER
Post-apocalyptic survival farming where zombies become fertilizer for crops
57% positive
312 reviews
Airships: Lost Flotilla
Airship survival roguelite with branching routes and ship upgrades
93% positive
311 reviews
Space Architect
Top-down space station management with automation and corporate debt
74% positive
309 reviews