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.
Dead Island Definitive Edition
Open-world zombie action with first-person melee and four-player co-op
82% positive
28K reviews
Soul Dossier
Asymmetrical horror matches pitting human survivors against a ghost
82% positive
Free
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Soviet-themed city builder with detailed logistics and planned-economy management
91% positive
27K reviews
UBOAT
World War II submarine simulator centered on crew survival and command
84% positive
27K reviews
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Third-person co-op survival shooter against hordes of Xenomorphs
80% positive
27K reviews
Frostpunk 2
Post-apocalyptic city builder focused on survival, resources, and faction politics
75% positive
27K reviews
Chinese Parents
Chinese life sim about school, family expectations, and generations
91% positive
27K reviews
SurrounDead
Single-player open-world zombie survival with looting and base building
91% positive
27K reviews
Pacific Drive
First-person driving survival through a shifting, anomaly-filled exclusion zone
83% positive
27K reviews
FAR: Lone Sails
Side-scrolling vehicle adventure across a dried ocean, keeping your machine running
95% positive
26K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
First-person survival horror with cameras, a mask, and animatronics
94% positive
26K reviews
Contraband Police
First-person border checkpoint simulation with searches, chases, and shootouts
95% positive
26K reviews
Farthest Frontier
Medieval city builder with physical logistics, farming, and frontier survival
86% positive
26K reviews
Infestation: The New Beginning
Open-world zombie survival built around scavenging and player combat
42% positive
Free
BLOCKADE 3D
Free-to-play first-person shooter with buildable, destructible block battlefields
59% positive
Free
TerraTech
Open-world sandbox action with modular vehicle building and combat
91% positive
25K reviews
Darkwood
Survival horror with daytime scavenging and desperate nighttime defense
95% positive
25K reviews
The Riftbreaker
Base-building action RPG with alien hordes and tower defense
90% positive
25K reviews
Dark Deception
First-person horror maze game built around running from monsters
88% positive
Free
Foundation
Gridless medieval city builder with organic roads and modular buildings
87% positive
24K reviews
Last Oasis
Open-world survival MMO where nomads travel on wind-powered walkers
62% positive
24K reviews
Sunkenland
Open-world survival crafting across flooded ruins, alone or in co-op
80% positive
24K reviews
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Asymmetrical third-person horror where victims evade a murderous family
66% positive
24K reviews
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Xianxia colony simulator about rebuilding and managing a cultivation sect
86% positive
24K reviews