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 Walking Dead
Episodic point-and-click adventure about choices in a zombie apocalypse
97% positive
81K reviews
Gray Zone Warfare
Open-world tactical FPS with extraction, co-op, and PvP combat
72% positive
79K reviews
Dune: Awakening
Open-world survival RPG of crafting, base building, and Arrakis exploration
71% positive
79K reviews
FTL: Faster Than Light
Space roguelike strategy built around crew management and permadeath
95% positive
79K reviews
No More Room in Hell
Slow-paced cooperative zombie survival horror with scarce weapons and infection
90% positive
Free
The Planet Crafter
Open-world survival crafting where base building transforms a barren planet
96% positive
74K reviews
Far Cry® 4
Open-world first-person shooter with stealth, mountain warfare, and rideable elephants
85% positive
74K reviews
Back 4 Blood
Four-player zombie shooter with changing missions and specialized team roles
69% positive
73K reviews
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Linear medieval stealth adventure about siblings, soldiers, and swarming rats
93% positive
73K reviews
Resident Evil 6
Third-person zombie shooter with four interwoven action-horror campaigns
77% positive
72K reviews
Dead Space
Third-person survival horror aboard a ship overrun by Necromorphs
91% positive
71K reviews
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Open-world zombie survival with community management and base building
83% positive
70K reviews
Eternal Return
Top-down MOBA battle royale built around looting and crafting
77% positive
Free
Killing Floor
Co-op survival horror FPS built around punishing monster waves
95% positive
69K reviews
ICARUS
First-person survival crafting across persistent worlds and timed missions
75% positive
69K reviews
Left 4 Dead
Co-op first-person shooter with dynamically paced zombie hordes
96% positive
68K reviews
Resident Evil 5
Third-person action horror built around a two-player co-op campaign
87% positive
68K reviews
Alien: Isolation
First-person survival horror where an unpredictable Alien hunts you
93% positive
67K reviews
Core Keeper
Underground mining sandbox with crafting, base building, and online co-op
93% positive
67K reviews
Plague Inc: Evolved
Global outbreak strategy simulation about evolving a world-ending pathogen
94% positive
66K reviews
Outlast 2
First-person survival horror amid an isolated doomsday cult
91% positive
65K reviews
The Binding of Isaac
Top-down action roguelike with randomized dungeons and transformative items
95% positive
63K reviews
Ultimate Custom Night
Free first-person survival horror built around customizable animatronic attacks
95% positive
Free
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Open-world vehicle-building sandbox with programmable air and sea rescues
91% positive
60K reviews