The Best Top-down survival-horror Games

Update : FOX XII added at rank #1.
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FOX XII (2025)

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Switch between top-down and third-person while engaging in intense dungeon combat packed with deadly foes and loot. Return to base camp to craft new upgrades and progress the storyline. Each run delivers unpredictable challenges and endless roguelike excitement.

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  • top-down
  • tutorial
  • loot
  • gun
  • tps
  • shooter
  • base-building
  • third-person
  • perma-death
  • pve
  • survival-horror
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rogue-like
  • horror
  • customization

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Zereoton Hauntings (2025)

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Zereoton Hauntings is a 2D top-down survival horror game based on the story of a paranormal enthusiast called Mateo who loves to investigate the various haunted locations in the US.

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  • walking-simulator
  • survival-horror
  • top-down
  • casual
  • horror
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • gore
  • dark
  • pixel
  • atmospheric

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Final Redoubt: Zombie Apocalypse (2025)

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PC Windows

Survive the onslaught, manage your ammo, and endure in Final Redoubt, a relentless survival shooter where every bullet, every swing, and every decision counts!

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  • outbreak
  • top-down
  • pve
  • resource-management
  • survival-horror
  • zombies
  • survival
  • shooter
  • tactical
  • real-time
  • pixel
  • post-apocalyptic
  • simulation
  • strategy

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Baratrum (2024)

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PC Windows

Baratrum is an arcade horror game where every playthrough is different in this procedurally generated game.

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  • top-down
  • dark
  • procedural
  • dungeon-crawler
  • shooter
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • demons
  • asynchronous
  • attack
  • score
  • surreal
  • arcade
  • comedy

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xukaackque (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

An experimental shooter where you play as a chaos magick ninja trapped in a spider's nightmarish realm. An imaginary landscape to escape with hellish spider guards. Will the world ever hear your story? Are you just another one that tripped, fell into a spider web in the basement, never to return?

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  • survival-horror
  • ninja
  • top-down
  • rogue-like
  • shooter
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • action
  • arcade
  • experimental
  • single-player
  • isometric

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Kill Me If You Can (2024)

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PC Windows

"Kill Me If You Can" combines RPG, and construction for a survival defense against zombies. Explore by day for growth, and at night, build defenses against incoming zombies. With unique skills per character, control a team, not just one, for dynamic gameplay.

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  • zombies
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • survival-horror
  • top-down
  • building
  • action-adventure
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • defense
  • single-player
  • action
  • rpg

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Sporeborn Dark (2024)

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PC Windows

Break out of a maze surrounded by darkness, infested with growths and filled with hideous monsters. Explore the randomly generated locations of the experimental zone to find something that will help you delay your doom. A dark, atmospheric, scary top-down horror roguelike

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  • horror
  • perma-death
  • 6dof
  • survival-horror
  • procedural
  • noir
  • top-down
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • psychological
  • survival
  • dark
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • pixel

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Never Forgotten (2024)

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PC Windows

A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • cinematic
  • dark
  • souls
  • stylized
  • psychological
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • story
  • minimalist
  • top-down

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SymbioPhobiA (2024)

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PC Windows

SymbioPhobiA is a short survival horror game, mainly from an isometric perspective that mixes action, exploration, puzzles and platforming that takes place in a futuristic and post-apocalyptic bunker that has an oppressive and claustrophobic atmosphere.

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  • 6dof
  • survival-horror
  • nonlinear
  • cinematic
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • dark
  • exploration
  • isometric
  • sci-fi
  • platform
  • gore
  • puzzle

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Koverpark Haunted Subway (2024)

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Koverpark Haunted Subway is a 2D Top-Down Survival Horror game based on the story of an abandoned subway station which is haunted by the spirits of passengers, rail engineers who have lost their lives due to tragic accidents.

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  • survival-horror
  • walking-simulator
  • top-down
  • horror
  • 2d
  • gore
  • dark
  • pixel
  • casual
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure

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