Survival for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Survival genre

The Long Dark - a game in the Survival genre

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Exploration, Open world

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Post-apocalyptic action adventure with first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of pilot Will McKennzie, who caught his...

Minecraft

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 June 2018

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...

Terraria

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 June 2019

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: Nintendo Switch → 7 October 2022

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...

Breathedge

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Survival, Comedy, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 April 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Breathedge is a science fiction adventure action game with a first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of an ordinary guy and...

Winter Burrow

Adventure, Comics, Survival, Casual game, Exploration, Construction, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 November 2025

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A game about a mouse who returns home from a big city to restore his old ruined home. You need to explore nearby locations, meet different characters...

Grounded

Action, First-person view, Online, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 April 2024

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Grounded is a cooperative survival game from Obsidian. The plot tells about children who have shrunk to the size of insects. Now the grass seems huge...

Frostpunk

Strategy, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, City Building

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2026

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frostpunk is a city-building strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. It tells the story of people surviving in a snow-covered world and...

Don't Starve Together

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2022

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: Nintendo Switch → 30 November 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...

Hobo: Tough Life

Role-playing game, Simulation, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Online

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 August 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 79/100

A survival simulator where you can experience the essence of the life of a homeless person and try on this difficult role. The events of the game...

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 September 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: Nintendo Switch → 7 October 2026

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: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2021

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: Nintendo Switch → 15 December 2020

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...

Core Keeper

Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator, Open world, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2024

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient...

Outbound

Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Construction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 May 2026

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

A survival simulator in an open world, the main feature of which is the main character’s van, which must be improved by adding various mechanisms to...

Subnautica: Below Zero

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2021

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...

Darkwood

Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Survival, Simulation, Survival horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 May 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Top-down survival action-horror adventure. Events take place in a mysterious forest, where every night threatens to be the last. Players control a...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 November 2018

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...

Chernobylite

Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 December 2024

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A first-person shooter with exploration elements and horror. While exploring locations, the player collects resources to build a base and craft...

Fallout Shelter

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 June 2018

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: Nintendo Switch → 18 December 2018

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: Nintendo Switch → 3 August 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...

Resident Evil HD Remaster

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Resident Evil HD Remaster is an improved edition of the legendary action-horror game with a third-person view for modern platforms. The game will...

Rain World

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 December 2018

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 63/100

An atmospheric hardcore platformer with survival elements. The story tells of a small creature named Slugcat, who was separated from his family in a...

Green Hell

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival, Online, Open world

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Green Hell is a survival-adventure game with a first-person view, where the danger comes from wildlife in the unexplored corners of the Amazon...

Minecraft: Story Mode

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 July 2017

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: Nintendo Switch → 9 June 2022

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...

Lou's Lagoon

Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2026

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

An open world life simulator inspired by the cartoon “Miracles on Bends”. Uncle Lou disappeared, leaving the hero with his seaplane delivery company...

Don't Starve

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Isometric, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries...

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 April 2019

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...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 February 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his...

Undying

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An isometric zombie action game about a mother who is trying to protect her son from all the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world. The problem is...

Kingdom: New Lands

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 September 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...