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Best Games in the Survival genre for PC
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Survival, Zombies
Game released: PC → 12 June 2019
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...
Action, Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Zombies
Early Access: PC → 24 October 2025; Game in development: PC → 2029
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
89/100
Multiplayer sandbox with survival elements and an open world. In the near future, an apocalypse has occurred: zombies roam the Earth, most people...
Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 27 August 2026
Steam:
76/100
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...
Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-based, DLC, Open world, Survival
Early Access: PC → 11 May 2020; Game released: PC → 13 September 2021
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...
Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Construction, Crafting, Open world
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
9.8/10
A survival action game from the creators of No Man's Sky. The game is set in a fantasy universe. Players are given control of an Earth-sized planet...
Adventure, Simulation, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 6 January 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
8/10
Steam:
81/100
A co-op game where characters explore a mysterious planet torn apart by repeated disasters. It is possible to build a complex industrial system to...
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Third-person view, Zombies, Crafting, Free game, Online
Game released: PC → 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...
Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Science fiction, City Building, Space, Survival, Adventure
Game released: PC → 31 December 2025
Steam:
20/100
A space simulation game about building and resource management. Your main goal is to prepare an expedition to another planet. To do this, you need to...
Action, Adventure, Simulation, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world, Gothic, Survival
Early Access: PC → 30 January 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Steam:
70/100
A dark vampire sandbox with a large open world that takes players to the fictional medieval Balkan region of Sangavia. Gamers take on the role of a...
Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Crafting, Survival, Online, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 14 October 2021
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
83/100
The Riftbreaker is a sci-fi action game with real-time strategy elements. You will take on the role of Captain Ashley Novak — Riftbreaker, an...
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space
Game released: PC → 22 July 2016
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Medieval era, City Building, Survival
Early Access: PC → 1 June 2021; Game released: PC → 17 March 2026
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
76/100
A simulator of building and managing a medieval settlement, unfolding after a devastating plague that left only a small part of the population alive...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Steampunk, Zombies, Survival
Game released: PC → 18 June 2019
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
74/100
They Are Billions is a hardcore real-time tactical strategy game in steampunk style. The game takes place in a harsh post-apocalyptic world, where an...
Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Sandbox, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, City Building, Comedy, Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction
Early Access: PC → 28 April 2025; Game released: PC → 19 April 2026
Steam:
82/100
A voxel sandbox where players build huge castles in a war-torn ancient world and defend them from hordes of enemies that threaten the entire kingdom...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Virtual Reality (VR), Cooperative (co-op), Survival
Early Access: PC → 24 July 2024; Game released: PC → 23 April 2026
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
78/100
An atmospheric VR survival game set in a world of surreal landscapes and deadly creatures known as the Pechorsk Anomaly. Play solo or in co-op to...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 17 March 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
81/100
A cooperative role-playing sandbox, the action of which takes place among islands floating in the sky. Players explore endless procedurally generated...
Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Logic, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival
Game released: PC → 30 September 2004
Players:
9.3/10
Metacritic:
73/100
Silent Hill 4: The Room is a mystical action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzle elements. The goal of the game is to help the character...
Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Demons, Detective
Early Access: PC → 28 July 2022; Game released: PC → 24 July 2025
Players:
6.6/10
Steam:
81/100
Ghost Watchers is a co-op survival horror game with puzzles and demons. Many abandoned houses are haunted. These could be the souls of suicides or...
Action, Adventure, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Survival, Old school, Procedural generation
Game released: PC → 27 September 2022
Players:
9/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Dome Keeper is an exciting post-apocalyptic survival game with roguelike elements, a side view and resource management. As you progress, you will...
Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Medieval era, Construction, Crafting, Post-apocalyptic
Early Access: PC → 25 February 2026; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
5.8/10
Steam:
73/100
The events of the game unfold in the gloomy world, tormented by plague and bandits. Players need to develop a settlement and manage its inhabitants...
Action, First-person view, Adventure, Simulation, Survival, Open world, Exploration, Crafting, Construction, Cooperative (co-op)
Early Access: PC → 19 April 2023; Game released: PC → 21 May 2024
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
84/100
The main character of the “survivor” is a member of an expedition who went in search of the source of eternal youth. After a shipwreck, the explorer...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Survival, Exploration, Old school, Shooter, Post-apocalyptic
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
10/10
Action adventure with survival elements. The main threat in the game is the deadly forces of nature - raging fires, molten lava and powerful...