The Best Survival Games for Playstation 5 - Page 4

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Rust: Console Edition (2021)

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early access Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4

For the first time ever, you can play these classic games online and use voice chat via the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app*. Compete or cooperate online with friends, share your screen, or virtually pass the controller, depending on the game.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • rpg

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Ixion (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

IXION is a unique and engaging city-building survival game set in space where you manage a space ark while searching for a new hospitable planet. The game's innovative gameplay encourages exploration and introduces external risk factors such as space weather and sentient threats. The graphics and sound design add to the immersion, and the story is presented through unobtrusive recorded dialogue with great performances. With an overall excellent execution, IXION is a must-play for city-building lovers and fans of sci-fi genres.


What we like:
  • Innovative gameplay that encourages exploration
  • External risk factors add excitement and challenge
  • Graphics and sound design are top-notch
  • Story presented through unobtrusive recorded dialogue with great performances
  • Overall excellent execution.
What could be improved:
  • Some fleet control challenges
  • Sheer amount of tasks, resources and responsibilities may be overwhelming
  • Regular crashes even on an upper mid-tier PC
  • Lack of tutorials may be a deal-breaker for some
  • Hard game, even experienced players may need to bump down the difficulty level.

  • city-building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • colony
  • space
  • simulation
  • exploration

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Survival: Fountain of Youth (2023)

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early access Xbox Series X Playstation 5 j PC Windows

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world survival game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • realistic
  • sailing
  • underwater
  • building
  • historical
  • immersive
  • base-building
  • simulation

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Bum Simulator (2023)

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Android Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Bum Simulator is a crazy and hilarious sandbox game with memorable characters. You can throw pigeons at people and upgrade them with explosives for chaos. Mix drinks from things found on the ground and drink or throw them at your enemies. Customize your cardboard shelter and build defenses to fend off rival bums. Every character is fully voiced with unique personalities. Get ready to embrace your inner bum and conquer the streets of Bumsville in this engrossing game.


What we like:
  • Interesting and unique concept
  • Fully voiced characters
  • Outrageous and fun gameplay
  • Good soundtrack
  • Easy achievements
What could be improved:
  • Few bugs and glitches
  • Inventory system can be annoying
  • Some mechanics are grindy
  • Invisible walls limit exploration
  • Sign for begging can be finicky

  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • funny
  • base-building
  • memes
  • comedy
  • open-world
  • building
  • inventory
  • adventure
  • realistic
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • single-player

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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria (2023)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

The only survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth, the iconic fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien.


  • survival
  • crafting

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Forever Skies (2025)

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PC Windows (Xbox Series X/s) Playstation 5

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • science
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • resource-management
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • survival-crafter
  • futuristic
  • cooperative
  • atmospheric
  • action-survival

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Outward (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows stadia Xbox One Playstation 5 Android

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

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  • survival
  • rpg
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • dungeon
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • souls
  • online

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ARK: Survival Ascended (2023)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!


  • dinosaurs
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • mmo
  • inventory
  • crafting
  • subdue-
  • -protect
  • open-world
  • building
  • warfare
  • split-screen
  • character
  • pve

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Faaast Penguin (2024)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch PC Windows

"Faaast Penguin" is a wild and thrilling knockout action racing game where up to 40 penguins collide in a chaotic race to the finish! It's free with cross-platform support! Unleash attacks! Hop on ULTIMATE RIDES! Use shortcuts! Pass your rivals and reach the finish line first!


  • snowboarding
  • spectacle
  • cooperative
  • auto
  • survival
  • royale
  • pvp
  • character
  • runner
  • customization
  • racing
  • table
  • cute
  • mech

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Ultra Pixel Survive (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

Command heroes with unique abilities, harvest natural resources to collect materials, then build and develop your military defenses.

Each night the enemy hordes will attack the village, and challenge your strategic and tactical prowess to survive. Explore dark underground dungeons, and wage battle against gigantic bosses!

Evolve your weapons by gathering new materials, and survive the epic onslaught for as long as possible.


Features
* Build and upgrade your resources and heroes
* Build defenses, farm, hunt, cook food and more
* Unlock new characters
* Action RPG and survival gameplay
* Cute epic fantasy pixel art


  • survival
  • never-ending
  • fight-or-flight
  • featuring
  • building
  • horde
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • pixel
  • base-building
  • sprite

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