Survival
Years
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Statuses
Best Games in the Survival genre for PC
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 2 February 2021; Game in development: PC → 9 September 2026
Players:
8.5/10
A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and looting tombs, building bases...
Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting
Game released: PC → 18 November 2011
Players:
7.6/10
Metacritic:
83/100
An engaging sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually infinite open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 12 August 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
75/100
No Man's Sky is an adventure simulator with a first-person view set in a futuristic environment. You will embark on a journey to explore space and planets, some of...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Zombies
Game released: PC → 6 February 2026
Players:
5.5/10
A cooperative sandbox with survival elements, set in a dangerous open world after a catastrophe. In the game, you can choose your own path: engage in farming and...
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
Early Access: PC → 24 February 2023; Game released: PC → 22 February 2024
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 23 January 2018; Early Access: PC → 14 December 2014
Players:
8.7/10
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 feelings that arise...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 14 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028
Players:
8.4/10
The continuation of the popular survival simulator, the events of which unfold on a new planet. After the failure of a colonization mission, the survivors must...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
Early Access: PC → 13 December 2013; Game released: PC → 25 July 2024
Players:
8.2/10
Metacritic:
41/100
Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...
Action, First-person view, Online, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
Game released: PC → 27 September 2022; Early Access: PC → 28 July 2020
Players:
8.3/10
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 to them, like...
Action, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 3 December 2021
Players:
7.6/10
Metacritic:
70/100
Cooperative action with survival elements from the creator of DayZ, where a group of prospectors lands on the dangerous planet Icarus in search of rare resources...
Action, Third-person view, Open world, Strategy, City Building, Construction, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Medieval era
Early Access: PC → 23 April 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
8.1/10
A survival simulator in the Middle Ages. The main character is a man accused of murdering a prince and sentenced to death. Having escaped punishment, he decides to...
Action, Adventure, Online, Warships / Submarines, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 14 April 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.3/10
Cooperative PvE adventure in a world of pirates, pioneers, and treasure hunters. The game combines a classic formula of building, crafting, and battles with...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Action, Historical, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival
Early Access: PC → 17 September 2020; Game released: PC → 17 December 2020
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
73/100
Medieval Dynasty is a first-person action-adventure RPG set in an open world inspired by the medieval era. The main character is an ordinary poor man who has to...
Adventure, Action, Role-playing game, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Third-person view, Survival
Game released: PC → 24 October 2023
Players:
8.9/10
Metacritic:
59/100
A cooperative action game for survival in the fantasy universe of The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves embark on a dangerous journey to reclaim their legendary...
Action, First-person view, Science fiction, Shooter, Collectible card game (CCG), Cooperative (co-op), Online, Crafting, Old school, Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Survival
Early Access: PC → 2 May 2024; Game released: PC → 22 July 2025
Players:
9.4/10
Metacritic:
88/100
The GATE network of secret laboratories is engaged in research in all areas, including the paranormal. One day, one of the experiments ends in a massive failure...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 24 January 2024; Game in development: PC → 31 December 2026
Players:
8.4/10
The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...
Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 16 October 2019; Game released: PC → 28 July 2021
Players:
7/10
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 useful items, while...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 August 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
8.2/10
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the land. As players...
Action, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 9 May 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2025
Players:
7.4/10
A cooperative survival action game in which the player becomes a member of the crew of an interdimensional train. The hero sets off to explore a mysterious world...
