Survival for iOS — top best games in the Survival genre

Minecraft - a game in the Survival genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: iOS → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled...

Once Human

Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Survival

Game released: iOS → 24 April 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Post-apocalyptic sandbox with survival elements and an open world. Players set out to conquer a world torn apart by a war with demons. The opening of...

Terraria

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Sandbox, Survival, Online

Game released: iOS → 29 August 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Terraria is an adventure sandbox game with platformer elements and a side view. You will embark on a colorful journey where you can create various...

No Man's Sky

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Space

Game released: iOS → 28 October 2026

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A first-person adventure simulator set in a futuristic world. You’ll explore outer space and planets, some of which let you interact with various...

Resident Evil: Survival Unit

Strategy, Horror, Top-down view, Survival

Game released: iOS → 18 November 2025

Players: 1/10

A strategy with elements of horror and survival, the events of which unfold in a parallel universe of Resident Evil. In it, players need to upgrade...

Don't Starve Together

Action, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Survival

Game released: iOS → 21 July 2026

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

A standalone multiplayer version of the famous survival simulator Don't Starve, where exploration, building, and the fight for survival become even...

ARK: Survival Evolved

Action, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Survival, Open world

Game released: iOS → 14 June 2018

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 56/100

ARK: Survival Evolved is an open-world action game with a first-person view and survival elements. You have to become a real dinosaur hunter. You...

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

Role-playing game, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Survival

Game released: iOS → 29 May 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. The game takes...

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Action, Shooter, Isometric, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Procedural generation

Game released: iOS → 12 November 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Spin-off of the popular cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic, where bearded dwarves escape from a swarm of space bugs and mine precious minerals...

Subnautica

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: iOS → 8 July 2025

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke...

Among Us

Arcade, Action, Online, Isometric, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Space, Survival

Game released: iOS → 17 June 2018

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Among Us is a casual multiplayer online game focused on social deduction. It is a simplified and faster version of "Mafia": from 4 to 10 players try...

Dysmantle

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Survival, Crafting, Open world

Game released: iOS → 19 May 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Dysmantle is an open world RPG that combines the best ideas from Zelda, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, SteamWorld Dig and Dark Souls. The action takes...

Left to Survive

Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Horror, Survival

Game released: iOS → 20 September 2018

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 59/100

Free multiplayer shooter in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players try to survive in a world of the living dead, using rifles, grenades...

Rust Mobile

Adventure, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting

Game in development: iOS → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.6/10

Mobile version of the survival game Rust. The hero comes to his senses on a picturesque island without clothes, and his only equipment is a...

Subnautica: Below Zero

Action, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: iOS → 10 March 2026

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Continuation of the adventure action Subnautica in first-person view, combining elements of role-playing games, sandbox gameplay, and a bit of...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 15 July 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The game allows you to plunge into the life of ordinary...

Fallout Shelter

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival

Game released: iOS → 14 June 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play side-view management strategy game set in the Fallout universe. In the game you have to build your own shelter and...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Survival, Strategy

Game released: iOS → 25 October 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to...

Brotato

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Shooter, Casual game, Procedural generation, Comedy, Online, Survival

Game released: iOS → 27 March 2023

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Arena shooter about a combat potato in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game tells the story of Spud from the planet Potato, who crashes on an...

Rules of Survival

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Battle Royale, Survival

Game released: iOS → 14 November 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 61/100

Rules of Survival — an online action game with a third-person view. You will parachute onto an island full of various ammunition and hostile...

Ashfall

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival

Game canceled: iOS → summer 2024

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

The game takes place in the distant future, when AI has gone out of control and started a nuclear war against humanity. After this, there was nothing...

Minecraft: Story Mode

Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Crafting, Survival

Game released: iOS → 15 October 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic adventure from Telltale Games in the Minecraft universe. The game tells the story of Jesse and his four friends...

Delivery from the Pain: Survival

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Survival, Zombies

Game released: iOS → 14 December 2018

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 79/100

An action role-playing game with survival elements and a top-down perspective, set during a zombie apocalypse. A research institute working on a cure...

ATOM RPG Trudograd

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-based, DLC, Open world, Survival

Game released: iOS → 1 June 2023

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

ATOM RPG Trudograd — an expansion for the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view ATOM RPG...

LifeAfter

Action, MMO, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Zombies

Game released: iOS → 17 December 2018

A free survival action game in an open world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse. Snow-covered mountains, forests, deserts, swamps, beaches, and abandoned...

Darkest Days

Action, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Third-person view, Zombies, Crafting, Free game, Online

Game released: iOS → 24 April 2025

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 50/100

The events of the game unfold in a large open world with desert villages, snowy islands and resort cities that suffered from a sudden outbreak of a...

Settlement Survival

City Building, Strategy, Isometric, Construction, Survival

Game released: iOS → 9 March 2023

Steam: 84/100

The player controls a group of survivors and oversees the construction of a settlement. It is necessary to protect people from natural threats, take...

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD

Shooter, Online, Top-down view, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Construction, Zombies, Strategy

Game released: iOS → 23 June 2022

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 45/100

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD is a top-down cooperative zombie shooter for multiple players. Every night you have to defend yourself from hordes of...

Kingdom: New Lands

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 9 March 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 84/100

Kingdom: New Lands is a side-view pixel management strategy set in a fantasy setting. You will become the ruler of your own kingdom and face various...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: iOS → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone...

20 Minutes Till Dawn

Action, Top-down view, Shooter, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Roguelike, Survival, Horror, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 9 September 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

A minimalist action roguelike where heroes fight against countless hordes of monsters straight out of the pen of H. P. Lovecraft. With a wide variety...

Dawnlands

Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Sandbox, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Adventure, Online

Game released: iOS → 9 August 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 46/100

Conditionally free survival game with crafting, building, anime-style graphics, and a large open world, similar to a mix of Genshin Impact and...

Prey Day: Zombie Survival

Action, Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Crafting, Zombies

Game released: iOS → 2 October 2018

A multiplayer survival action game set in a large city overrun by a zombie epidemic. Streets, shops, garages, and residential buildings have become...

My Little Universe

Cooperative (co-op), Online, Top-down view, Arcade, Survival, Dungeons, Action, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: iOS → 30 September 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 89/100

A vibrant co-op game in which gamers travel through nine mystical worlds. There you can hunt for treasures in caves, pass challenges and fight...

NEO Scavenger

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 26 July 2017

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

NEO Scavenger is a turn-based strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat. In the game, you will need to survive in post-apocalyptic...

Death Road to Canada

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Zombies, Survival

Game released: iOS → 22 March 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead...