The Best Survival Games

Update : Exile added at rank #1.
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Exile (2025)

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Android j Mac OS Playstation 4 wii u vita Linux PC Windows

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.


  • survival
  • retro
  • colony
  • old-school
  • sci-fi
  • platform
  • scroller
  • rpg
  • perma-death
  • pixel
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • simulation
  • metroid
  • shoot-em-up

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Tinkerlands (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • 2d
  • replay-value
  • exploration

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Final Outpost (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?


  • zombies
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • survival
  • base-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • economy
  • simulation
  • resource

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Forever Skies (2025)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows j

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.

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

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Crashlands 2 (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.


  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • inventory

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Atomfall (2025)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s j Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.


  • survival
  • survival-action
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • stealth
  • rpg
  • open-ended
  • crafting
  • first-person
  • combat
  • mystery
  • shooter
  • narrative
  • action-survival
  • alternate

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Pathologic 3: Quarantine (2025)

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PC Windows

In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.

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  • survival
  • horror
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • immersive
  • rpg
  • simulation
  • remake
  • surreal
  • survival-horror
  • cult
  • dystopian
  • story
  • detective

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Aloft (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • building
  • sailing
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • naval
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • farming

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My Summer Car (2025)

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PC Windows

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

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  • auto
  • simulation
  • open-world
  • survival
  • driving
  • drunk-driving
  • building
  • vehicle
  • realistic
  • funny

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Border Town (2024)

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PC Windows

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

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  • building
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • survival
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • magic

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