The Best Survival Games

Update, : Ultra Pixel Survive added at rank #1.
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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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The Pale Beyond (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.


  • survival
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • narrative
  • unforgiving
  • snow
  • hand-drawn
  • simulation
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • resource

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Sons of the Forest (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

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  • survival
  • survival-horror
  • crafting
  • horror
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • inventory

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Frozen Flame (2022)

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early access PC Windows

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • campaign
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • pvp
  • building
  • dark
  • hack-and-slash
  • sandbox
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • visual-novel

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Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission (2022)

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PC Windows

Get ready for the ultimate survival adventure on Nova planet in Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission! With resource gathering, automation, and survival, you'll learn your way around the game and build an incredible base with the help of amazing helper bots. Unlock new islands, gather resources, and meet new creatures in a world full of adventure! Whether you want to be a kind visitor or an interloper, the choice is yours. Don't miss out on this exciting journey!

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Pros:
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Very good gameplay, audio, and audience appeal
  • Easy difficulty
  • Average grind level
  • It's free!
Cons:
  • Short game time
  • Average story

  • farming
  • automation
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • casual
  • building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • adventure
  • crafting
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • resource

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Stranded: Alien Dawn (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Lead a group of survivors in Stranded: Alien Dawn, as you explore an expansive living world and build a base to protect against hostile creatures on an unforgiving alien planet. Manage your survivors' needs and make difficult choices to shape their fate. Are you ready for the unpredictable journey ahead?

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Pros:
  • Rimworld vibes
  • Easy to learn
  • Nice graphics
  • Well-thought-out characters
  • Good building and storage system
Cons:
  • Currently lacking in content
  • Crude combat system
  • Healing skill not important

  • survival
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • management
  • crafting
  • hunting
  • colony
  • cooking
  • destruction
  • tower-defense

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Dome Keeper (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Dome Keeper is a 2D mining rogue-lite game where you must excavate for resources and upgrades in order to survive the alien hordes. You'll have to make strategic decisions on how to use your limited resources and unlock defensive systems in order to escape the planet alive.

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Pros:
  • Strategic resource management
  • Smooth gameplay
  • Intense experience with plenty of tension
  • Variety of difficulty settings and ways to customize runs
  • Rewards careful strategies
Cons:
  • Some reliance on luck when it comes to resource placement
  • Minor issues with certain mechanics

  • time-management
  • aliens
  • mining
  • survival
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • management
  • wave
  • tower-defense
  • pixel
  • underground
  • resource
  • dark
  • perma-death

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Card Survival: Tropical Island (2022)

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Android Mac OS PC Windows

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.


  • survival
  • card
  • crafting
  • perma-death
  • hand-drawn
  • text
  • simulation

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Endling Extinction is Forever (2022)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android

As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever.


  • survival
  • nature
  • exploration
  • cute
  • stealth
  • scroller
  • skill
  • dystopian

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Keplerth (2022)

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PC Windows

Keplerth is a 2D survival game set on an alien planet. You have the ability to craft weapons and tools like clubs, axes, and torches from the resources you find in order to survive. You'll also need to buy armor and supplies from other residents of the planet. There is also a storyline with a robot helper who needs your help to save his friend Danny, who was taken away by the Meco people.

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Pros:
  • Crafting weapons
  • Buying armor and supplies from other characters
  • Deep story line with robot helper
  • Ability to modify your character's genes and improve stats
Cons:
  • Graphics are more simplistic than other titles in this genre
  • Lack of direction at times
  • Confusing inventory system until you understand it

  • survival
  • sandbox
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • farming
  • 2d
  • sprite-work
  • rpg
  • dungeon
  • base-building
  • casual

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